Nearing triple digits- Day 100, with only a month left. I apologize for the lack of writing I've done lately, (but don't worry, because this will be a long one!). I've racked my brain for a long time, and I still haven't quite thought of anything profound to write about. However, as you can tell from the title, things are beginning to wind down here. It's been more than 3 months since I left Wisconsin and made my way to Ghana, which means I only have a little ...

Electricity, or water? This question is something I've pondered quite a bit over the past few weeks. Not really because I enjoy thinking about which one I like more, or which is more important to me, but mainly because it's a dilemma that seems to turn up every few days. As I'm sure you've guessed, we have been without one of the aforementioned pretty consistently, and it's become a very frustrating battle. As I write this, the water is off, and since that's ...

"We are all one people. We all have the same color blood." For some reason, I've recently come to enjoy beginning with a quote of some sort. They serve as a great foundation, and really seem to get me thinking. Even though I've always been for equality, integration, justice, and everything else, that particular notion has never entered my mind- we really do all have the same color blood. Although the above is, as far as we know, completely true, h...

Part 3 of 3 (with no relation to part 1 or 2) GMT. Ghana is in the GMT time zone. Greenwich Mountain Time, right? Wrong. It's actually "Ghana Maybe Time." From the moment we got here, we realized the concept of time was just a little different that what we're accustomed to in the United States. Classes don't start on time, and classes don't end on time. The buses don't have schedules, and if they did, they wouldn't stick to them. Restaurants open...

Part 2 of 3. Oboruni. All foreigners here are referred to as "oborunis," (pronounced oh-bru-ni), and you can't go far without hearing it shouted at you. Literally translated, it means "white man," or "foreigner." Nothing offensive really, but I know it will be something we'll hear until the day we leave. It does become frustrating at times though, as you hear it more times than you can count, day in and day out. Whether it's the...