Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Tamale, Ghana- UFS Guest House
On the road from 7 AM to 6 PM with only a one hour rest in the middle for lunch (Joloff rice… spicy rice with a hint of tomato and excellent herbs. Very excellent) My dad purposely placed my backpack in the shotgun seat… to which I frowned thinking I’d be missing a lot of conversation with the rest of the crew. But in the end, he was right. It was just a lot of sleeping... and that extra leg room made all the difference. With all our luggage stacked on top of the car with a covering on top, pushing a car with a heap of “stuff” on top in the middle of road in hope that it would start again made for an excellent scene. No worries though, we got there nice and easy. The spell where the dust was kicking up so bad we closed the windows and had AC was very satisfying, as that will probably be the last time I would have extended AC for a while.
While the house is very spacious and homey, there is no air-conditioning in the bedroom… thus entitling the two cold showers I’ll take each day as the best part of life at the moment for my Minnesota physic. The house is fully furnished, with a nice sofas, refrigerator, stove, and two bathrooms. One however, is locked away in David’s room (who is the senior volunteer here as he has already been here for 16 days). Thus, six people essentially use one bathroom, which is separated into a shower with nowhere to hang a towel alone store shampoo/soap and a toilet.
There are total of six new volunteers that arrived here including myself: John, Christina, Marti, Caroline, and Katie plus David. All of them are very nice and have high aspirations for what is to come and far in their futures.
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