Longtime

Wow, okay, sorry I haven’t posted in so long. I’ve been out and about. OUT and ABOUT. Here are the haps! On the twentieth, I woke up at 3:30 in the morning, walked to the station in Bolga and got tickets for me and Peggy for the bus to Wa. The bus left around 5:thirty and when it went through Chiana, where Peggy lives, I screamed at the driver to stop and pick her (“Drivah! Drivah!! My seestah! DRIVAH!”). She got on, we got to Wa in the early afternoon and stayed there for a few days. Things that transpired in Wa include: having a delightful reunion/fufu dinner with Christie, the deaf teacher at Wa School for the Deaf that I met while I was on Vision Quest, making brownies, eating the cinnamon rolls that Peggy made (Peggy is a magical being) and watching an entire season of Big Love (best HBO Morman drama there is). One of the best things about Wa was how much cooler it was there. Peggy and I were in heaven at night, especially when it was rainy and breezy. It was nice to be in Wa again, see Christie again and just hang out somewhere new. From there we traveled to Kumasi and then to Ho, where we had our All Volunteer conference. All Vol consisted of: sessions mainly centering around HIV/AIDS stuff in conjunction with PEPFAR, SWIMMING in the POOL, SLEEPING in the AIR CONDITIONING (adios, heat rash! Yesssssss!), eating super fancy food (one day I ate four different kinds of meat – beef, goat, chicken, fish – more than I usually eat in a month), and the normal Peace Corps shenanigans. We also found out more about how Peace Corps Ghana is expanding a lot in the new few years. They are adding administrative positions, opening more suboffices, taking on a new American government initiative centering on food security, and want to have twice as many volunteers in country by 2012. That will be 250! Apparently Obama loves Peace Corps and is dumping loads of money on us. Okay! The conference went really well. It was great to see people from training again, meet new people and be able to luxuriate in the gloriousness of luxurious living for a while. Now I’m on the way back. Left from Ho this morning, changed cars in Koforidua and am now in Kumasi. Overall it was about eight hours of travel, which is really not seeming like a lot anymore. On the tro from Koforidua, I left falling asleep on the lady next to me. Whoops. People are really nice about that kind of stuff though. I bought some take away fufu on the way back here and am now pretty much doing nothing at the KSO. Tomorrow will go to Tamale (maybe I’ll post again!) and then on Tuesday will get back to Bolga. School technically starts on the eleventh….we’ll see how that turns out! If there’s anything you want me to write about, let me know!

 Tidbits

-         New favourite song! This is the one that supplanted “Simple” as my favourite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDlN7R73oQ. This is my new second favourite – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVmYev1SGU.

-         Newish Peace Corps Ghana website – http://ghana.peacecorps.gov/