I Love my Life...

 I love my life right now!!!! There is nowhere else I would want to be, but in Ghana. I don’t know if I ever thought that I would say or think that if you asked me 5 months ago, but now that I have things to do, places to be, I could not be happier. Let me explain a bit more about why I’m so happy….first, I am getting things done like I have never done before. I won’t lie…I can be a bit of a procrastinator… but here, I want to do more, have more responsibility, be involved in everything I can be involved in. I don’t know if I am feeling this because im “growing up” or because I just fit into this life style so well; this is my niche. Growing up, I never even thought about the Peace Corps or even really knew what it was. It was not until a friend from college (Nicole Abrams) talked about how she was going to be serving in Morocco as an environmental volunteer that I thought to myself, yea, that sounds like an awesome thing to do with my life.  So, here I am, living the life that I never knew I wanted to live and loving it.

Some of the things that I am now involved in are:

 a. Shea Group, called PC-SHEAV, where I am helping to plan a training for Shea farmers

b. Helped develop the new Bee Keepers group: United Beekeepers of Peace Corps Ghana, where I am the secretary and just finished a honey harvesting training

c. I am writing a Plant Guide book for Ghana; divided into three section-grasses, crops, and trees. This is going to take a lot of time and effort from lots of people and I can’t wait to get it going

d. I am also writing a theater games book since Ghanaians LOVE Theater and playing games. So this will be a guide for the volunteers to teach games, songs and other activities to their kids and communities

e. Traveling…I love to Travel. I was selected to go to Mali this April for a Food Security summit, but since Mali had a bit of a coup, not sure what will happen there. Than I am going to Benin for the west African Shea Conference at the end of April with 5 other PCV’s, going to be so much fun

f. Also in April…Big month I know….my region is putting on a girl’s camp called GLOW, I will do a whole blog on that one later. So im super pumped for that

So that is why I am in such a good place in my life; the busier I am, the happier I am. It also does not hurt that I love most the people that I am working with in my various projects. And the fact that I have a real bed and fan in my room at site makes life so much better since it is SOOO HOT HERE!!!!!! My cat Tully is also doing amazing, and makes me so happy each time I see his little face, such a special boy. He caught and ate a mole the other day…what a good cat. Well that’s my life and I hope  life wherever you are is just as satisfying as mine is…