Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Update on sending packages and letters

Hi all!  Jordan and I are away from site for a month to attend two different meetings, one called All-Vol (happening this weekend) that's a training for all of the PCVs in Ghana to get together and learn about different things and have some fun, and another called COS (or Close of Service) from May 6th-8th.  So in between then, we have to get some work done in Accra, but we'll also be using the last of our vacation days to travel back down around the beach!  Then heading back to site after COS conference just in time for the start of the 3rd (and final!) term of the school year.

Right now, our tentative date for leaving Ghana is August 1st.  While we won't be home right away (we're taking some time to travel), we will most definitely be gone from Ghana, and want to make sure we don't miss any letters or packages because they were sent too late!

Letters: Please start sending these to the Accra office.  The reason for this is that it usually takes a LONG time for mail to travel all the way north through the country to get to Tumu, and then probably just as long to get from the office in Tumu to my school!  Also, as we're getting so close to the end, please don't even feel obligated to send a letter at all now...save your money and buy us some cheese when we get home and get together :)  See the side bar for the Accra address.

Packages: We really don't need ANYTHING at this point in time!  So no need to send anything :)

Thanks to everyone that has sent anything the past two years!  We've REALLY appreciated it! 

Monday, March 25, 2013

Projects, etc.

Alija educates her peers about moringa powder. So Proud!!!
 
and about how to make soap for sale to give her peers an opportunity for income.
Burning the bush is bad.
Alija displaying some of the garden's first products. Don't worry, she's actually happy

Issah tries to dig himself out of a wet situation...literally.
Muhammedu and his son Sabon
 
 
Muhammed discusses his plan for the rabbit hutch
 
a day old bunny
 
 
 
bricks are up!
Watching BBC Life videos. I'm pretty sure you could classify this as...NEATURE
 
Our new water pump
 

This child might come home with us...
Sarah in her Granma's dress, with a cute belt bought from a thrift shop. Nice




washing moringa!

Issah and Hikima play at the garden
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Around town

This guy is the product of a Peace Corps Volunteer. Cute kid!
Me and James get to huck the bee a little bit.

Another soap making session
Measuring the oil
The palm oil
Stirring the soap mixture with moringa powder
Into the mold
We play bubbles with the kids

Abiba likes us :)
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and they like to climb the white people.

The students get to make Valentine's again this year
 
Very proud
Sarah get to pose at a wedding.
 
 
They dance in a circle for probably an hour in the hot sun. ouch
and of course the janga butt bump

Our good friend Matilda
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