Friday, October 5, 2007

1This is my second try at this, the power keeps going off where I am. So I am moved in with my host family. The family consists of my "mother" and "father", their son who is 21, their daughter and her two daughters ages 9 months and 10 years, and another son who has a wife and a 3 year old son. They are really nice, very accommodating. So yesterday morning the 16 volunteers in my village went to visit with the chief. The day was pretty intrense with a lot of people staring at me in my house, but the afternoon the older children in the village took a group of us on a walk to the mountains nearby. We went into a bat cave and climbed up some rocks for a gorgeous view of the town. Today we were back in Techiman for our meeting with our big group, which is now down to 45. I found out that the town I will be living is is called Azura, in the Nkwanta Distrct of the Volta region. It is in one of the most remote parts of the country, less than 5 km from the border of Togo. Im excited about my project, I will be working with women and children a lot with health projects, HIV/AIDS education, guinea worm education and water sanitation. Im pretty excited about it, the village hs about 1000 people in it. I wond have regular access to email and my phone service will be sketchy. The biggest nearby town is about 50 km away, and they have intermittent internet, mainly at the world vision office there. I will be moving in the first week of December.

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