officially in Ghana!

January 20

I’m here!  In Ghana!  Weeee!  

Fred and Jane are with us (us being the group:  Jean, Angela, Nolan and myself). Jane is from the Toronto/New York YCI office and will be heading back to Canada in a couple of weeks.   Fred is Ghanaian, lives here and will be with us for the duration of the project.  Both are extremely supportive, intelligent, passionate and equally all around awesome folks.  I feel really grateful to know them and to have them here with us as we learn the ropes.

 

Last night we enjoyed a classic Ghanaian night out – Chinese food and salsa dancing.  Not exactly traditional, but very Ghanaian things to do as I’m told.  I suppose it’s like making sure to get sushi when you’re in Vancouver.  Either way, so much fun and there are about 50 Ghanaian line dances to learn before I go... that, and the art of dancing like the locals... though I’m not sure I can move like that without popping out a hip.

the aisle is so the new window...

January 17th

There have been a few advantages of travelling solo thusfar.  Namely, I don’t have to sit in the middle seat.  When flying with Dust, it just makes sense that I take the middle seat – I’m smaller, I’m more chatty and he leans against the window and I lean against him.  BUT!   On my own today I stumbled across the glory that is the aisle seat.  Once an avid window-fan, I’ve officially switched teams.  The leg room, the sense of liberty, being asked what you want to drink first... amazing!

There is a problem though:  I am not a graceful sleeper.  Through a few eye-witness accounts from the roomies about my need to breathe heavily in their face/my creepy half-open eyes and Dustin’s growing collection of unflattering sleeping photos taken from various bus and plane rides, it is clear that I am not pretty when I sleep.  So my only problem with this newfound love for the aisle seat is which way to turn my head – inside and the poor sap in the middle gets an eyeful but outward and the entire plane has to witness the horrors.  No one wins.  Except, of course, me and my stretched out legs :)

Ok... I’ve had enough of this epic layover in Amsterdam... let’s go to Ghana!

this move just keeps getting better and better...

Today I discovered that I left my 37 bottles of bug spray and sunscreen in Vancouver.  Wonderful.  Hey, maybe it's packed with our bed, chairs, toaster, dvd player or any of the other household essentials we somehow didn't think we'd need in Montreal. 

first time's a charm?

Venturing into the land of blogging... let's see how it goes!