This last week has been another mini whirlwind. My life at the moment seems to resemble the mini tornadoes that we get here - you see them picking up in the distance, small little whirly wind torrents that pick up all the plastic bags lying around (did I mention that there are literally huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuundreds of them scattered around here - it's awful!) and spin them around in the air like playful little black and white birds. It's quite bizzare in the midd...

The last few days I have been settling into my lovely new house and I thought it deserved a blog entry. It is now starting to feel like home away from home :), mainly thanks to Bev's cooking (amaaaazing mashed potatoes!!!) and Johns pottering and D.I.Y. around the place (I now have a tap that works woo hoo!), as well as the stream of visitors that pop by to greet us, and our many interesting neighbours, who I am slowly but surely getting to know. First there i...

A new home, a new chapter. Since moving to Zebilla there have been up's and downs, highs and lows in my experience as a VSO volunteer. So far it's been one long story of movement and change, constant flux and everything new; the ground has not stayed still underneath my feet, or my feet have barely touched the ground, whichever way you look at it! I have to say it has been truly amazing, but at times very challenging, and I am looking forward now to a new chap...

Hippo spotting on river safari and sleeping under the stars! Our trip to Wa started with only the few small hiccups you would expect when attempting to travel in Ghana... first (after getting up at 3am and waiting two hours for him to arrive) the bus-ticket-man strolled up and began to sell tickets, only to be met with angry shouts of 'corruption!', and frustrated sighs 'this is just typical!'. We found out he had already sold three quarters of the tickets to a...

Back at work this week, after returning from Wa, I took a trip out 'in the field' with some colleagues, and I noticed lots of little black crosses painted carefully on all of the houses in one particular community. When I asked Abbie and Dominic the Driver about it, they both started laughing and saying that actually they didn't know either but that they would also like to find out. So off we went to one of the local schools, where they asked one of the teacher...