Around the last time I wrote my blog, I felt homesick! There was nothing specifically making me upset here, I just felt ran down and really missed home-almost wanted to fast forward time! I spoke to mum and she said when you feel even a little bit run down, you become hyper sensitive to the annonances around yu and all you want is your sofa or bed-"and your mum!" I thought! Once I came off the phone I felt a bit emotional so I sat on the grassy bank wit...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope you all had a good one. I spent new years' firstly in the church and then in the local bar. Spirits were high and there was a buzz in the air. I found myself looking around and thinking how surreal it was that I was here, in Ghana-outside a hut for a bar, surrounded by houses and washing lines, making shadows on the wall behind the bar with our hands, watching with bemusement at this guy carrying a table with his teeth and another guy blow...