Blogs from Afransi, Western, Ghana, Africa

hello alll!!!! how r we? hope everyone is welll. keep up the contact love hearing everyones goss!! This will be short as the internet is particuarly slow today and unknown to me the internet is closing early today so i will be cut off very sooon. The week following my Malaria outbreak was pretty chilled. I took th rest of the week off to recover as i was still pretty dizzy and ridicuously tired, as in falling asleep on the toilet and in a taxi. embarassing. Anyways. My aim was to rest and relax but at times this was tired as almost half the village, all the teachers and many of my fellow obrunis wished to visit me. This was a lovely thought yet very tiring and at times frustrating. But i am completley recovered thanks ... read more

This is my class - Primary 4 at Amazing Grace School. They love being 'snapped' but don't seem to take it too seriously! There is also the addition of a creature they found and took as class mascot for the day. He doesn't appear too camera shy either.... read more

Bascially a 3 day sports day... read more

For those who are interested, maleria is not fun! I can't believe I've only been here three weeks and somehow ended up being the first person from my orientation group to be struck down! Usually I never get bitten. After being taken stright to the lab by the master of my school on Friday, who heard I had not been feeling well, I was given a positive test result. It is quite a different procedure because you never actually see a doctor. The lab give a paper copy of the test result which you give to the pharmarmasist, who gives you the medication. ...only trouble was that they gave me some really strong drugs which I reacted to and I eneded up in Swedru hospital on Monday on a drip to clear them from my system. ... read more

Today it was raining cats and dogs. I think it is the end of the rainy season. When it rain it is so torrential that you can't get anywhere and the ground turns to mush. I was in school today and the rain started just after the children arrived. Half the school had a corregated iron roof, so depite the open sides the children can stay dry, so the younger children had to move from their school building with a palm roof to the other one. Under these conditions, actual classes can't really go ahead, so we taught a couple of classes hangman and a few lessons were attempted. We were told by another teacher not to worry about teaching as it was raining. By lunch time there was a break in the storm, so the ... read more