Dear Ghana,
Let me count the ways in which i love you and life at the moment! First things first, i have finally gotten a hold of my room and made it my own! ( i know it has taken me 3 months to do it, but now its amazing) I have painted it a lovely Grey and Purple, I had shelves made for my bedroom and kitchen, as well as a screen door (which they call a trap door here...not the best name for it...) for my bedroom. I am going to be getting fake wood floors as well soon, so that i do not have to look at the concrete anymore!
Teaching has been going well, I taught them itsy bitsy spider the other day, as well as head shoulders knees and toes! I am going to be starting an Eco-Theater club with the Junior high school kids soon! Ghanaians LOVE to act and play around, so i am going to combine the two loves in my life and do small shows about how we can improve our community! I am also going to be doing a "club" for the primary school (elementeray to all of those in America) which is pretty much me just reading story's to them and playing small small games. I am also starting the slow process of starting a bee keeping group in my community.
*This is a call out to ANYONE that knows of any bee companys, I need some help and would love to get any contact info that you know of!*
My counter part and i went up to a IST (in-sercive training) about Shea Trees, since most people in my area are cutting them down and useing them for charcole, instead of useing the nuts to make shea butter and other things, so we are going to try and get them to stop useing the shea trees, and use some of the other trees in the area that are grown just for charcole production. This IST was in the Upper West, and took us two days to get there! That was the last region in Ghana that i had not been too, so now i can say that i have seen all of the regions in Ghana!!!! From There i took a 15 hour bus ride down to Accra! Oye, that was a very long day!
Now i am in Accra for Turkey day celebrations! The US ambassador hosts all of the PCV for a good ol' thanksgiving day dinner!! He does this out of the kindness of his heart and Boy, do we ALL appercate it so much! So a big THANKS to you! Also, since most of us have to travel far to get here, they set us up with expats (aka people who are working in Ghana from America) to stay with. I won the lottery with this, me and another girl got set up with two of the most amazing men ever! (Ted and Paul)! Their house is amazing, the food....O the delious food that we have been having, and this morning they brought in a women to give us Mani/Pedis, so i feel utterly female at the moment and loving it! what a nice change to the dirt and scruff that i usually am!
And my last bit of news....I got a KITTEN!!!!!!!!!! His name is Echo, hes a grey tabby and AMAZING! I will post pictures soon of him and my new room's look!
Ok, well thanks again for everything Ghana, Ted and Paul, The ambassador, Peace Corps, and well Everything!!
I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL thanksgiving day!
Love,
Tess May
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