Stephen promised to take me to visit the chief and the local churches on Sunday, so on Saturday afternoon I ask to borrow and iron and he brings it to me.
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Last Friday, we all traveled to our sites for a 4-night visit to meet our communities.
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We don’t get out much at night here. We’re pretty much discouraged from any kind of nightlife, and I’ve been too tired after training days to want to do any kind of group activity. I just want to have some time to tend to my inner introvert. But last week, we were late coming home from a session and night was falling. From the bus we saw hundreds of bats along the way home, very large bats unlike any I’ve ever seen before. It made me wonder if they were migrating, and made me think of Halloween.
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I expect my views on this may evolve during my stay here, but here are some initial impressions. Continue reading Initial Impressions On Refuse and Recycle →

During the past two weeks of training, we’ve stayed in our home villages for language training, for the most part. Technical training is from 3-5pm, after language, and they bus one group from Anyasin to Maase, or vice verse for that. (We are split into small groups for language training.) Continue reading New Tafo Adventure →

This was originally an email/facebook update to friends, but I decided to post it here also just for some general info about my adventures….

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Written October 6, which seems like a lifetime ago. I’m posting this but not re-reading it because I know I’ll want to edit in retrospect…not allowed! *smile*
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