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!!

This is how we do it......

So I have now been in Ghana for....18 days.....wow......it seems longer and shorter all at once! So lets see, what have i been up to these past 2.5 weeks: I am now living with a Ghanaian "host" famliy, which means all of the NRM (natural resource management) kids are living in a village in the eastern region, with host familys. I have a new "mom, dad, 7month of brother and 2 year old sister" . It was been an.....interesting time....the food has taken some time to get used to. imagine if you can a large ball of bread dough, only with you roll it, it does not change shape, and has been fermenting for a while.....this is called Kenke.....a food that they have here....i can not say that i love it all so much!
But on the brighter side of life, the fruits are amazing! Two days ago, we learned where we are going to be living for the next two years.....called our Site announcement ceremony......I got WAY sick that day, and was feeling like death, so im sure most of the people there thought i hated that i was going to be living in the EASTERN region, up in the Afram Plains!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!! Im super excited! I will be taking over for a PCV (peace corps volunteer) that is there right now and will be COSing (close of service) this august.
I will be learning a language called Ewe, with only one other person, who is in the Volta region. I will be having 6 hours of language training DAILY and than 2 hours of tech training daily as well for the next 2.5 weeks! My head is going to explode with amazing knowledge! lol After that, we are (we, as in NRM and Watsan) going on field trip after field trip for about 5 weeks! i will visit my site and learn bee keeping and see crocs and go to a monastery! and lots of stuff, so look out for that, and i will put pics up soon, i just dont have  my camera charger at the moment...woops! lol, thanks mom for sending me a package!
Ok, well thats all that is going on in my life at the moment, PLEASE send me mail and packages!!!! I WOULD LOVE to hear from everyone!
 a special shout out to my Ginger Katie for thinking a head and sending me a kick ass postcard so i got something the moment i got there.... You ROCk!!!

GHANA.... WHAT?

So, im in Ghana.....Its pretty awesome......loving the people that i am with...so far...lol! I am on my vision quest at the moment in the volta region with laura. for those of you who are not in peace corps and have no idea what i am talking about, a vision quest is where i travel to some part of the country and spend 5 days with a current PCV..(laura is sed volunteer) she is a teacher for IT stuff....i know nothing to do with the envrionment, but its still pretty awesome! we went to another pcv site and planted some coco seedlings today.....pretty fun! but thats about it for now, we are going to go be leaving and eating some popcorn and watching a movie in her house..i will update soon with my views and thoughts of Ghana and such!              So yea....peace corps rocks....so far   :)

I'm Packed, I'm Ready, Lets Do This!

So this is it.........The US government was not lieing to me when they sent that invitation...it wasn't just a big hoax and anytime now someone will shout...You just got Punked.....I am actually going to be living in West Africa for the next 27 months. 

I just finished reading the first 50 years of the peace corps; it was very interesting and i learn quite a bit...I had no idea how many volunteers there once were and how they wanted to have that many again for the 50th ( 14,00 volunteers......we only have around 7,300 at the moment) so unless they can pull off placing 7 thousand more volunteers in 3 months, i dont see this happening...lol but back to me.....

The last week in the states for me was AMAZING! i got to see a lot more people than i thought that i would get to see.....thank Ashley Flinn and Kaylee jeorgens for spreading the word and getting married...lol Thanks too to Sean ( you know what you did) and Hillary Brown.....O why does south africa have to be so far away!!!! 

But i'm packed, im ready, Lets do this!

Mail....you should probably send it now so i can it soon!

Here is my first address that you can reach me at while i am in Beautiful Eastern Ghana:
Tess May PCT
Peace Corps/Ghana
P.O box 5796
Accra-North, Ghana
West Africa


I would love to  have as many pen pals as possible!!!!

The time has come the Walrus says......

Wow....How time has flown...and i mean FLOWN! I remember when i first found out that i was going to Ghana....I thought that 5 months were going to take FOREVER to go by....how wrong i was. Its true what they say, the older you get, the faster the times goes. I had my birthday yesterday....and already it seems like a week ago (lol). Today i bought my first big things for my up coming adventure (yes i know.... procrastination kills, but what are you going to do?) I got a new travel backpack and a pair of Chacos! I have never had either of these, but am SO excited to be getting them.
I know that the time is coming, that i will be leaving soon, but it has not hit me yet....buying these things brought me to the next level....but some part of me is still thinking......really? ghana??? 27 months?? theres no way thats happening!! O, it is....it is!
Well Walrus.....you are right....the time has come...18 days left here in the States