Thursday, October 11, 2007

yams, bore holes and latrines!

well, life is giong well in Ghana. I have now been living with my host family for abour 2 weeks abd things are going great. Yams are big in ghana and are used at about every meal. They also have casava and garen eggs. We spend most of the week in our village, outside of techiman. The rest of my sector, health and WATSAN water and saniation, also live in the village, the other sectors are at other villages near Techiman. Each day we have sector time and we have language in small groups. I am learning Twi and have three other people in my group. We meet for four hours mon, tue, wed and saturday. During sector time we are learning about how to get invovled in our comunity and how to help them asses their own needs. We are also learning a ton about latirnes and boreholes. I never new there were so many types of latrines!! Today we took a tour around our village and saw many latrines, including the so called public latrines.

Thursdays and fridays we go to Techiman to meet for more general sessions. Its great to see the rest of the group and use the internet! WEe are also a big fan of fan ice, this chocolate milk/ ice ceam thing u can buy in a pouch!!

Thats it for now, ill try to post this bf the computer crashes again!!

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