Jordan and Sarah here: That’s right, we’re back together again, I know you were all worried J Last Sunday Jordan returned to Kukurantumi from his epic 5 week venture around the country (Sarah is very jealous) learning a whole bunch of cool stuff of which we will start once we get to Tarsor. We have spent a week now in language training preparing for our LPI (Language Proficiency Interview). Although everyone continues to assure all the trainees that we will all be fine, we are all a little stressed knowing it is pretty much our last hurtle to jump before we are sworn in. We have been studying pretty hard (Sarah is much better than Jordan, but he’s just gotten used to that J ) It is a little frustrating knowing that we are being trained in a dialect that we will not use since the dialect spoken in our village (Gilbagla) is slightly different in many cases. Oh well. We have been receiving packages sent by our amazing parents!! It’s like Christmas every time we open them. We take one piece out and oogle over how awesome it is that we have it here in Ghana and continue always hoping its not the last present. However, we now have a ton of stuff to haul back up with us across the country to our site. Oh well, TOTALLY worth it. We are now counting down the days until we finally get to settle down and begin to make our new home for 2 years. We have plans for a slamming garden (thanks Mom), composting, organic fertilizer, environmental clubs, and much more. We will spend the next week finishing up formalities before PC cuts us loose eg banking, swearing in, water filters… We bought a modem that will hopefully get decent service at our site so we will be able to have a way to update the blog there although there may be fewer pictures since our service would be based on info transferred so uploading pictures will eat up lots of that info. But we’ll be able to keep you posted. We’ll spend the last few minutes uploading pics. But before we go, here are the 5 Don’ts presented to us by the country Director:
1: Don’t get bit
2: Don’t get hit
3: Don’t get lit
4: Don’t do it
5: Don’t eat shit
NO, Jordan, you cannot bring the croc home as a pet!!!
ReplyDeleteYou must really have amazing parents?!?!?! (-;
Love ya both.
Hahaha Sarah, you crack me up! I can't wait to hear the language when you return to the US! I'll be curiuos to see what it sounds like.
ReplyDeleteAlso- I'm interested in seeing what your new home will be like! The gardening sounds awesome and I'm totally jealous! What will you plant?
Just a tip for the pictures. If you have your computer along, you can just change the size of the photo in Microsoft Picture Manager to be smaller and worse quality but at least you'd be able to upload more even if they are a bit pixilated. If you brought your Canon camera, those files are huge so it would help a lot to just do a save as. I look forward to seeing more pics!
Hope you guys are doing well!!!!!