Hey friends! please accept my apologies for being a little turd on the blop updating front. I intend to get better at it. Since our arrival in Ghana, we have been on the go dailiy. There is much planned for us and we are to attend every training session, take on th echallenges of figuring out the cities and transpo system with enthusiaim. things are much relaxed nowadays, but the amazement still remains everynight when the starts reveal there amazing beauty to me. They shine so bright here, much brighter than the states. This is due to a few things. It gets dark here at at 6pm, and I have to use a torch light to find my way home.
I will do my best to give you a run down of my few weeks in Ghana thus far. When we landed in teh Accra airpot, we were greeted by the previous volunteers with little bags of Omo, laudry detergent thrown at us. It was very sweet and some peopl got emotional. Very systematically we were ushered to our busses and led by a semi motorcade through traffic, we felt very presidential and important. Most of us had eyes as blank as deers, not blank with emptyness, but the kind of blankness that commes when several images web togther and become nothing. I had to close my eyes and let my body feel my present state. I had to really say thank you to god for teh safe flight, and for the airconditioned bus. I most important said thank you for the faces, colors, and smells of Africa. It was beautiful, to think that I have not come back home in 10 years.
We arrived in less time because of our personla rad clearers, and quickly filled to the dinner of rice and stew with plantains waiting for us in a canopied dining area in the Womens Centered where we sepnt four nights. In this short time together, certain personalities among the group were revealed and you know who you think you will end up getting close to and who you want to avoid and so on...a bit premature but reasonable amongst young people. While we stayed at teh womens center, we had a few assignments to get done. One was to go into Accra and find certain places, not directions were given, and we had to ask peope and negotiate prices based on teh standard pricing rules given to us by our PC trainers. We shared Tros with strangers with strange smells, we laughed with old women on there way somewhere, we chatted away strangers who wante dto show us teh town on there own accord..not advisabel by the way Ghanians are very friendly and helpful people but reason has to coem in somewhere...
On the third day or so we had our Vision Questt. where we visti a volunteer that is already in service, working in a village somewhere..I was to travel with three guys heading teh same direction and our trip was projected at 2 days..YES! 2 days..I swallowed my saliva, and put on one of my smiles that say sure im up for a 2 day travel in very uncomfortable busses and drunk drivers...I was however comforted by my travel mates.. they were a fun bunch. I was actually amazed at out calm when our vehicals brok down and took hours to repair. we alwasy found something to do by the road side. We were never short of an audienceo f shildren screaming and waving ABOURINI Ni..white person.
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