Greetings, everyone. It’s been a quiet week in Seikwa. I’ve been spending the majority of my time improving my home, working on the school computer lab, and getting to know my way around the community. For the last two weeks or so, it’s been decently hot during the day, pleasantly cool at night, and the [...]
That’s right. I’m now an honest-to-God Peace Corps Volunteer, worthy of my Birkenstocks and everything. I took my oath on Tuesday, the 19th of August, 2008 at approximately 10:45am. The ceremony wasn’t all that grand of an affair, but it wasn’t exactly a slouch, either: we had a brass band and a group of us [...]
Greetings, everyone! I hope you’re enjoying the Olympic coverage as much as I am. For those of you who watched the opening ceremony and saw the Ghanaian Olympic team, I have a little trivia. They were wearing kente cloth, which is a traditional cloth that is made only in ghana and is woven in strips [...]
Greetings, everyone. I’m writing this email from my guest bedroom/office in my new house. I’m at site, and while I still have quite a few things to do before it’s actually livable for long periods of time, it already feels like home. That’s right, I have a house. With multiple bedrooms. To myself. I know [...]