to all my people as the africans calls us whit folk...oh yeah apperently white people cant keep secrets like black people can!so i am told lol atm im in an interent cafe in Hohoe waiting for some gal to get here who im gonna be travellin with this weekend, we just hooked up on a travel buddy website..who would have thot id be meetin someone off the internet lol thats directed at sarah if you ever read this. so ill meet her at the lorry station and some guys even gonna wait for a few hours to take me there. haha everyone wants to help the lone white girl...or small yevoo as ive been called a lot or small sister.

ill start from last weekend....me carmen and julained travelled to cape coast on friday which took forever and i spent about 5 bucks on street food...i am constantly hungry, its so annoying, ive been eating about 5 meals a day and it doesnt help that wenever a trotro stops in traffic lights there will alwasy be a icecream,meat pies, plaintain chips, boiled eggs or kebabs being hawked thru the windows of the trotros...we got to out hotel and it was fantastic ..i flushed a toilet, turned on a tap and ate some mac n cheese all in the space of 30mins...it felt like heaven! and there were white poeple everywhere i was just staring at them like the lil african kids do just out of curiosty. we started early on sat morning went to Kakum National Park and went on these walkways 120ft above the ground...was terrifying!! then vistied 2 slave forts which was so horrifc to see where they kept thousands of slaves for about 2 months before shippin them on the slave boats...was awful. they were kept in dungeons..ususally ironically under the chapel in the fort while the governer had a huge suite on the top floor. so whenever the governer would want to rape one of the female slaves they would be brought out to the courtyard, hed chose one and then send them to be washed and it was the only time they ever had a bath, otherwise they would be living knee deep in filth. was just the weirdest experience ever to go to a european castle in africa.

on the sunday the girls went to church while i had a huge english style breakfast and met a group of 6 english n dutch volunteers and was just amazing to speak to some european people was awesome!! then we went for a drink and i had my first fag in two weeks which was amazing, so i just had a fantastic morning chilling out with these english mateys. trvalled back to Vakpo on the monday and had to take this new volunteer Jen who turned out to have this internet bf in ghana so hes come up nd staying in a hotel so shes living in the hotel with him now so im basically on my own...oh well i didnt like her that much anyway but its nice to have some contact with a western person. gues i just got lucky meetin carman and julaine cas we got on really well.

had my first experience of being totally on my own this week. just to do something after work i went to this totally weird 'meditaon centre' i had to walk down a dirt track for about 10 mins then i came to this overgrown garden with vines wrapped round all the trees, 20 ft high cactus' and statues of the virgin mary everywhere....was so creepy, i was totally on my own. in the middle of the garden was 2 20ft high statues of mary and jesus, i was like ohh rity then, but realsied it was the first time i was on my own in the last 3 weeks and was kinda relaxing just to sit there and do nothing. found out the place was for this cult of about 200 poeple who worship the vrigin mary...was like somethin outa a horror film. anyway walked allong this road in the middle of nowhere and met this Jamaican dude whos whole family moved from jamaica to ghana with like the 'back to africa' movement...was awsome he had dreadlocks down to his ass and had such a cool accent so he waited with me for a ride back to my village and i came home to a power cut so everything was totally pitch black but its kinda fun...i know the power cuts will lose there novelty.

just uploading some pics of the orphanage... was ok this week. just getting into the same routine, get up about 6, work at 7.30 then either with the kids or in the kitchen till 3 with an hour lunch break. the kitchen gives me a good rest if ive had the day beforehand with the kids. i collect firewood, start the fire, wait bout an hour for the water to boil! serve them a snack of this cocoa stuff, wash up then help Precious start lunch. if im with the kids ill just try and teach them numbers, animals, counting games but most of the time im playing with them. its so hard teaching these kids anything cas theres like books and resources but there just not relevent to african kids...like when will they ever need to know what a beaver is! when i get out the books to read to them most of them just wanna stack them on there head, its like a natural instinct to pile things on their heads or when i bring out dolls and teddy bears to play with, they'll bring me them, turn round, bend over and want me to put the doll on there back cas thats how they see their mom carry babies. its just hard to get anywhere, especially when i see the teachers trying to teach them things when they can barly read and write. even tho ghana is a more developed country than lots of places in africa, these poeple are still getting only about 1 doller a day if that. the teachers only get 35 bucks a month which is crazy, gonna get mom to make a hefty donation to the teachers, the kitchen lady Precious wants electricty in her house which is about 60 pounds to install so ill probs give her that money...its crazy 60 quid so a family of 6 can get electricty and i could easily spend that on a pair of shoes back home....god this whole experience is mind bottleing......'you know mind bottling, when your thoughts get mixed up like there in a bottle'' --blades of glory to all that dont know! ok well im offskies now to meet this gal and yay im checkin into a hotel with electricty and running water and probs a matress and not a 2cm thick peice of foam! yesssssss!!!!

untill next time xxxxxx