The day after going to Sirigu, the plan for Amy and I was supposed to be going to Bongo to see a big rock that's supposed to emit a vibrating boom when struck. But we got lazy and decided to lie around all day. We didn't actually go for dinner at Veronica's house that night, so we said we'd go the next night, which was the night of the day we were lazy and didn't do anything. Amy stayed back at the room while I went to the internet cafe, and then as I was walking back, Veronica was sitting at [View Full Entry]

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Spending Christmas at Dr. Abdulai's was very different from any other Christmas I've ever experienced. He tried to feed between 3000 and 4000 people, only the most poor and destitute. It was a very emotionally exhausting day. I got plantains and the ingredients to make kaklo for Christmas. It didn't really turn out the way that it's supposed to be, but it was still tasty. I also got hair elastics, which I really needed. Katrina was my Secret Santa, and she also got me a Fanta, so I'm not bitter about the Fanta incident anymore. Yesterday, Amy and I set off [View Full Entry]

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We finally made it to Tamale after an insane million hour bus ride to Kumasi which involved the bus breaking down numerous times and various other bending-the-safety-rules instances, and then another long trotro ride the next day to Tamale, where I carried my backpack on my lap and was kind of losing circulation in my legs. Tamale is very dry. Everyone told us that our lips would crack and our noses would get very dry and it's true. Have you ever tried putting Blistex in your nose? It's tingly. Right now we're staying at Dr. David Abdulai's Shekinah Clinic. It's a [View Full Entry]

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Sooooooooooooooooo.... A few days ago I left Dudevi, crying uncontrollably and ungracefully. The last three weeks went by much too quickly. But I don't think I really elaborated on Nkawkaw, so I'll start with that although it was a while ago. Father Paul, the greatest man alive, took us sightseeing around the area. We went to the top of the mountain where it really doesn't seem like the top of a mountain because there's a few villages up there and you could pretty much live there your whole life and not know that you were on top of a mountain. We [View Full Entry]

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So I'm enjoying my last night of electricity before leaving for the second half of the village stay. We had a very enjoyable retreat but I think we're all excited about seeing our families again. I'm really excited to go back to the ugly turkeys of Dudevi. Man, they're really, really ugly. They have layers and layers of skin hanging off of their faces....euugghh. Anyway, one night in the village, we were sitting outside digesting our nighttime meal--delicious as always--and we were chatting by the lantern light. The moon wasn't out so it was pretty dark. Woesta was telling me that [View Full Entry]

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Sorry about the last entry, I could've made it so much better but it was my first real experience with electricity in three weeks and I was kind of overwhemeled with hearing from the outside world for the first time in a while. Sooo, I'll try again and I can't remember what I wrote the last time: The heat was pretty hard to get used to at first, at times I felt like I was in a sauna, almost short of breath. I was also a little dehydrated which was my own stupid fault because I was too much of a [View Full Entry]

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Stephanie Cozzette c/o Sister Bernadette c/o Battor Catholic Hospital Box 52, Battor via Accra (Sogakope) Volta Region, Ghana, West Africa write to me NOW [View Full Entry]

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I'm sitting in this internet cafe with 45 minutes left and I have no idea of how to summarize the last month or so of my life. When I think about my life in Canada, I have trouble remembering things, and it feels like a past life. My experience thus far has been incredible, and everyday really is a new adventure. So I will try to explain what I've been up to.....The trotro ride from Accra to Battor was interesting, a man was at the front dictating some sort of speech in Twi for quite sometime. We thought he was talking [View Full Entry]

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I've finally arrived in Accra, the capital of Ghana. We arrived on Monday night, just as the sun was beginning to set. It's pretty hot, but extremely humid--and it's supposed to be the dry season! It's the kind of humid where you're always sticky, and the kind of hot where you just have to somehow become accustomed to the putrid smell coming from your armpits. Other than that, I'm having a really great time, so far. Accra is a busy city, full of people, and life! The sights, the smells, the sounds--every step is a new experience. We've had a wonderful [View Full Entry]

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"You have to run with your own feet to some place you haven't been before---to a new place. You have to leave the world where you have everything under your control. You have to leave the world where everybody likes you. You have to head into a world where you are poor and powerless. And there---you'll be converted, despite yourself." -Richard Rohr [View Full Entry]

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