The life of a PCT...so far

Greetings! I have now left the coco college and have been traveling around Ghana for the past 2 weeks and have just started this adeventure, but first.....I have been to my site.....and i like it a lot!!!!!!! So to get to my site you have to cross Lake Volta on a ferry or a fast boat, and it takes around 30 mins to cross it, so its not to wide...thank goodness. So once you get to the other side, you have another 1.5 hours of traveling till you get to the next biggest town.....my Martet town...where i will buy just about anything that i might need.
Well, now we are in this large town (and when i say large think of those who know it....prob. around the size of Nashville, IN) from my this town, we take the only road that goes to my town for about another 30 mins. Its the picture that i posted before this one. Depending on the amount of rain we get, the road can either be relativily calm to a nightmare...so it all depends on monther nature...and how good the shocks are on your vehical (general....there are no shocks....so its more like a roller coaster ride). Than we get to my tiny town of mem chemfre! It is very small and quiet and amazing! there are no stores or anything; all the houses are off the main road in the trees a bit more. The landscape is...its hard to describe...there are mountains (or really like larger hills) on either side of me, so its always green here, but flat in my area, I will do try to post more pictures of it next time i got ( When i swear in as an Offical Peace Corps Volunteer).
I will be living ina  very secure compound with some teachers, so thats lovely.....I have one room and a kitchen. I also have a flush toliet all to myself and running water at certian times of the year!!!!! WHAT!!!!!! I was not expecting is at all!!! So that is very nice...Its a good combo of true PC living and some awesome amenaties!!
Ok, so here is the skinny on the next 3 weeks or so, the NRM crew is gonna be traveling all around Ghana, so i get to FINALLY see the north, which i am super excited about!!!! i will let know what what all is going on next time I get internet...so who knows when! But i hope everyone is having a Fantastic time where ever you are!!!!!!

Just a few pictures

The one and only road in and out of my town

The lake near my village

A village of Fulani (nomadic tribe)

a university for Coco...yes please

I have now been in Ghana for over a month.....holy hell....and i'm still loving it! We are leaving our homestay family's today and will be gone for the next 5 weeks. I am not sure when i will be able to get back onto the internet next, so i thought that i would write  real quick and tell you about what has been going on. I tired Fufu for the first time yesterday, it was not so bad......I did a major faux pas and chewed it, which you are not supposed to do, its more of a swallow fast type of paste...my bad!  I cant wait to see who is going to be swearing us in...it could be anyone... :) I feel that i must being this up, since being in PC i have become very close to all the people in my "class" in a very short time. First i feel that this is because we are thrown together in this Crazy situation and we have to hold onto each other and fall a long way down; second, to be doing something is ridiculous and out there, we all have to have at least something in common with each other and that can create bonds like nothing else and third, When you are in a land where there is NO one that you can relate to very easily, these people that i have only know for 1 month, are a life raft, are the light at the end of the tunnel, you could say and i love that we are together in this (whether we like it or not :)
P.S Happy b day Kim and Nicole!!