I’m thinking it will be like any other Sunday, but Stephen comes to my porch with news. “We have another funeral today,” he tells me, “It was at the house of your friend, the Muslim woman,” he tells me and I catch my breath. “It is her mother. Oh, she was very old. She was blind, you never see her because she is all the time in the room there.”
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Closer to Normal
When we arrived in Ghana, we were each handed a bottle of Voltic (a common high-end bottled water) and told that we should hang onto the bottle if we wanted a water bottle, as it would be the last one we would get. Once we arrived at home stay, we could begin using our water filters to refill the bottles. But while traveling, we’d start using what everyone else in Ghana uses: pure-water sachets. Pure-water is 500ml plastic pillow-shaped bags of water sold for ten peswa each. I soon learned to rip off the corner with my teeth and drink it down fast, like everyone else.
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Some Bits of Good News
While I wrestle with something I want to write but am having trouble with (let’s get serious and take all the fun out of it, shall we? Naw, not really. Well maybe just a little.), I thought I would just pop in to share some of our recent bits of good news.
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One of Our Own
Stephen and I are on our way to Tamale, in the Northern Region, for beekeeping training. The call comes just as we’re pulling into Wenchi station. I almost don’t pick it up because I don’t recognize the number.
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