one month til swearing in!

we are more than 1/2 way there! Training is going well, this past week we went on a field trip. I was part of the WATSAN group that went south to the eastern region. We traveled though Kumasi, and went to the site of a current volunteer, Alexis. We thought we would just be crashing on her floor for the week, but it ended up she arranged for us to stay at this super sweet bungalow bed and breakfast the next town over. It was run by an Italian woman and her Ghanaian husband and they let us stay their for the week for free! So our field trip was great. We got to visit the clinic in her town, a hospital that worked on herbal medicines for patients with HIV/AIDS, and played in a football match against the local team. While we lost the football game, even with the help of a few local guys, we did successfully teach a lesson and give a skit about malaria during half time. People were really interested and had alot of questions for us!!
The second morning of out trip we went on a hike to a nearby waterfall. The village is trying to develop it as an ecotourism site, and we got jump off the rocks to go swimming in the river. Each day for lunch we made sandwiches, pb, tuna or egg salad and for dinner Alexis counterparts family cooked for all of us! We also got to teach an HIV lesson to the local JSS or middle school students. Allison and I had JJS2, similar to our 8th grade. We were happy to see that many of our opponents from the football game were in our class haha!
So it was great to get home after our travels. Been back in Forokrum with my family there. We have had time to work on our small community projects, had more language practice, and gone ot techiman to present projects about the culture to our group. Today we have some small meetings to plan for the week and tomarrow is the big football match agianst the trainers.
Thanks so much for all the letters and emails! Its good to hear from you all. Thanks Mom and Robin for awsome packages--- 2 in one day, best day of training so far!!!