Some Slight Schedule Schanges

One of the most exciting things about this Ghanaian adventure that I am living is that things are always developing, from my relationship with my host family to my understanding of culture to my enjoyment of traditional dishes (fufu, banku, kokonte, ampesi with palava sauce... yum!). Included among these dynamic components of my life is my exact schedule--when I will be living where and for how long. Over the weekend, after visiting a monkey sanctuary where I got to hand-feed a banana to a monkey, our program coordinator shared an update about our schedule for the rest of our time here.

[here are some of the monkeys I got to see on our trip last weekend... perhaps their names are Jessica, Chet, and Hudson?]


Currently I am still working in Accra, the capital, and will be until early January. On 6 January I, my four fellow Bridge Year students, and our two coordinators will travel to Kumasi, the second largest city in Ghana, where we will stay for about 5 days' mini-orientation prior to the second phase of our Bridge Year volunteering. On 11 January we will move in with our new host families in a village an hour or two outside Kumasi, and on 12 January school will resume in the nearby middle schools where each of us will be assisting teachers and perhaps leading some lessons. School will close for the year on 15 April, soon after which our group will return to the city of Kumasi for about three weeks of working together at an orphanage. If everything falls into place as we hope, we will spend the last three weeks in May together in one of the northern regions completing a group project. Our final few days in Ghana will be spent back in Accra, bidding farewell before our 31 August departure for the US.

I know that you are keeping me and the rest in your prayers, and as I ponder how it will be to move to the village and then to Kumasi and the north, I am grateful to know that you are supporting me and thinking of me!