Nasara settles in, goes to work, market and Binaba. Back in Zebilla, I've been getting to know the town a little more, and apparently the town has been getting to know me too. The children that live nearby are now shouting 'sista Aiee-ma!' (huge emphasis on the E now, so cute) when they spot me even from a mile off, and a few people on my way to work are greeting me with 'hello Amma', 'how are you?,' 'how is your house?', 'how is your mother?', 'how is your fat...

Welcome party in Bolga! It's been a real whirlwind of a time settling in here, but slowly and surely I am getting into the rhythm of things and finding my feet on the sandy ground of this crazy and colourful experience they call life in Ghana. Last Saturday I went over to Bolga for my first volunteer's party, for new starters and also some leavers, and it was brilliant! There is such a large bunch of volunteers here in (or with good access to) the Uppe...

Oh my god, there is a man on a camel in my back garden!!!!! Who on earth comes home to find something like that in their backyard?!!! Well, apparently my neighbours, because for them this is not an unusual occurrence. But for me - WOAH! This is truly crackers and the most insane thing I have witnessed since finding a duck living here last week (sound strange I know, but really, a duck here in the parched dried out scorching savannah? I mean come on that's jus...

Little tangerine in a big fruit bowl. Today I did actually have my first day at work, which is cause for a little celebration me thinks. Having been told to arrive at 8.30am, I got to the offices on time only to be greeted by an eerie silence, and seemingly no-one around. Dreading another tumble-weed morning like yesterday's, I began to wander around to see if I could find any signs of life. Office by office, one by one, the doors creaked open to reveal empt...

I was really looking forward to my 'first day at work', I was quite excited and couldn't help myself, even though I had been warned by others not to expect too much! In a way I hould have guessed what was about to happen, after all it was familiar territory in Malawi...You arrange to meet someone, you together set a date, you together agree the time. So you sort yourself out to be there on that date and that time, ready for the perfectly pre-arranged get-toget...