i feel the love.

yay! you all DO read my various thoughts and experiences :)

thanks so much for reading...and now for the comments!


so this last week i attended IST (in-service training) in Kumasi with my counterpart, Ollie. A counterpart is the person whom we, as PCVs, will be working closely with in our respective villages. My CP is amazing, and that's not a biased opinion. We sat through sessions on roles and responsibilities, information about HIV/AIDS, common diseases in tropical weather, grant application information and past stories and projects from other volunteers. In the end, I think we left super motivated and are now ready to get some things rolling in the village!!

We made a 3-month action plan, so I'll let you all in on the plans. After the holidays roll through, we hope to start having community meetings to find groups of people with similar interests to help with any project we want to do. We want to start new groups and utilize the already existing groups (like farmers groups, womens groups). Then our big project we hope to do is a Malaria Campaign before the rainy season arrives. We hope to educate surrounding villages on prevention and treatment of malaria. Malaria is probably the biggest cause of illness in children in my village, so hopefully we can educate people (mostly women) on how to care for their sick children. .... More details to follow when we get things going.

The holidays will be tough, but just know I'm making new friends and people that are like my family here. I'm sad to be away from all of you during these times, but I'm also excited to see the holiday spirit in GHANA! :)

so merry christmas, happy new year, and all that jazz from ghana!!

i love and miss you all.

xoxo

hello world.

does anybody read this or am i writing a personal journal here?

=)


miss you all
xoxo

fufu

sorry it's sideways, but it's a video of my home-stay mother and sister in the beginning stage of pounding fufu!