training and site visit

Well this pic is from our "cooking session" Basically they want to make sure we wont starve or something once we get to site, so our assignment one afternoon was to get into groups and use local ingredients to make a meal. Daria, Joe and I made fajitas. We had the salsa, tortillas, chicken and veggies, rice and beans all made over open fire or charcoal burners. It took all afternoon but we had a blast, we were super proud of ourselves!

So right now it is 1:30 in the morning Ghana time and I am sitting in the Tamale Sub office enjoying free Internet yeah! There are a bunch of us here on the way back from visiting out sites for the first time! The nkwanta crew (the 6 Watsan people going to the Nkwanta district of the Volta region traveled with our counterparts (who had come to Techiman for a conference last week) to our sites on Friday of last week. We made it in one day bc we took one vehicle all day bc there were so many of us. I got to my site about 8:30 at night and after some initial awkwardness i got to sleep! Coming back was a little more difficult since i had to take 6 different vehicles and had to wait for up to 3 hours to the bus to leave a town. haha. We finally got to the office tonight! Site is great, I have a dog left for me by the previous volunteer at my site, I live with a family, im really close to Togo, um... yeah my first day I was sitting outside and a boy comes up to my with a pigeon in his hands. He says that the chief has given it to me. So i timidly take the pigeon, not wanting it to fly away, but also not really wanting to hold it. everyone laughed at me and the boy too the pigeon back. I was kinda confused until a few minutes later the boy came back with the pigeon, not dead and with no feathers, ready to be cooked. haha! Basically now we are headed back to Techiman for 2 weeks of training and the swearing in ceremony and then we are off to our site for real! Exacting! More later!