Week Eight

December 3rd, 2009 by Tom Lehmann

Ghana has begun to enter the dry season, which entails the sahara coughing all over this land.  The air is, well, dry, and you cannot see too far in the horizon.

After “twooo goood munths” as they say, life seems normal here.  The children in the village have not stopped harassing me, and sometimes I have to discipline them, but not quite as severe as the Ghanians using the stick to whip the children’s hands when they do not remember an answer to a question in school.

The past weeks have involved teaching classes with not much turnout of pupils, hanging out in Ho, and travelling locally around the Volta regoin.  The past weekend was a dream spent at a lodge on the ocean south of here.  This place had a lagoon that is one of the only inland bodies of water that is safe for swimming, and its like one giant heated bath.  There is a monkey that is quite amusing to hang out with, and drums always beat away the night.

I will be leaving the village within a week and heading down to this lodge to volunteer on the ocean.  I feel like it’s time to hang out on the beach and drink out of coconuts for a while.

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