http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/adventuresoflindsey/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from adventuresoflindsey en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:01:33 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:01:33 +0000 Thought I should let everybody know I've spent the last two days working on a scrapbook so it's now done and I've posted 24 of my favourite pics in the gallery section of this website... so go back to the opening screen of my blog and click on gallery and then click on the picture that is there and it will open them all up. Hope you like them and send me a comment if you would like to get togeth http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-79717.html I guess you could call this the last entry of my african experience except that I am sitting in an amsterdam internet cafe and so that would be slightly untrue. I got my ticket bumped up a bit and so I'll be home this afternoon. Hard to believe it has come to an end already... it was really hard to leave my village and all of the friends that I have made there.Lindsey http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-77907.html Well then... an awful lot has happened since my last real post so bear with me as my scatterbrained brain tries to cover it all. Firstly... I tried Batik. A friend I have made that does all the batik making of cloth with wax and die for most of the schools around offinso offered to teach cassie and I how to do it so Cassie and I spent the entire day with him doing the whole thing ourselves an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Ashanti/Kumasi/blog-76394.html Once again I composed an entry and had it dissappear... suffice it to say not much has happened except that I learned to make batik and spent a day doing construction on the new school... and now for some pictures. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Ashanti/Kumasi/blog-74292.html So I think it has been a while since I have posted... but my mom was here this week and we had a great time together. Having a canadian get right off of the plane also showed me how ghanaian I've become... all of the little things that my mom looked quizically at that I consider perfectly normal... it will be strange when I get home that is certain.So my mom arrived on friday and they lost her lu http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Greater-Accra/Accra/blog-72555.html ...And then I got Malaria... but I still managed to ride a crocodile go on a safari and have a baboon come up to the table where I was eating grap the black bag out of my purst that contained all of my cash and chase him until he dropped it... So yeah we left for Bolgatanga on friday and our bus left late broke down and needed another car to drive 2 hours up to where we were to bring us a sp http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Northern/Tamale/blog-68153.html I am now a few days away from being halfway done my trip in ghana so Cassie and I are headed up north for a week... we are going almost as far as burkina faso and the highlights should include feeding chickens to crocodiles and spending a few days in a pool looking out over an elephant watering hole in Mole National Park. The exciting pieces of news since my last entry are that we received some http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/blog-66779.html To sum up my 20th birthday... quickly cause I have like 5 minuteswe all went to mama's boutique... a shack that serves lukewarm beverages to you while you sit in lawnchairs... and I invited the teachers and the guys that work at the site and told them I would buy them each a beer if they came... so there were about 20 of us... and we drank and then the ghanaians tried to teach us to dance... an http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/blog-65399.html So I arrived back to work on tuesday morning and went over to the corner where the notebooks are kept in cardboard boxes and nearly had a heart attack Two furry white balls closely resembled rats were in one of the boxes. My interaction with the students went something like thisAh What's in thereMadame it is catswhy are there cats in our classroombecause they live theresince when http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Ashanti/Kumasi/blog-64403.html I went to Cape coast this weekend and I would show you pictures but my batteries are dead.... it has possibly the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen anywhere the sad part of course being that many of them are filled with waste and you'll even see pigs rummaging among them. I also saw a goat pregnant with triplets... it's cross section could be compared to a 3 foot long footballAnd the mosqu http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Ashanti/Kumasi/blog-62736.html To sum up Ghana I will quote from a bumper stickerOn judgement day you'll wish you had Jesus stickers on your carFour days later I can cooly admit that my post about my first day at school was the nicest I could have made it... in reality my first day was hell and I cried when I got home...but since then the school is awesome... I'm tagteam teaching the oldest kids a much smaller class of o http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Ashanti/Kumasi/blog-60646.html Volunteer Bootcamp is what we were calling it on saturday... we arrived at our homestay on friday and went to the land the site of the building project to put in a few hours work on saturday. We only lasted a few hours seeing as how we were lifting 40lb blocks of cement and carrying them over rough ground to place them beside the dugout foundations where they will eventually be laid. The family http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Ashanti/Kumasi/blog-59802.html So I've found a better internet cafe today but hotmail is still slower than Molases in trois pistol so if people are interrested in I emailing me please use kettelklgmail.com.I have found out that there is no international calling in offinso and no internet so I'll only be able to get onlineuse the phone every few weeks when I take a bus to Kumasi. Anyways Kersten's knee got worse so she's http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/blog-58074.html Hey guys I have arrived safe and sound in Africa. I'm on my way to my ghanaian dancing and drumming lesson so this will be brief but a few highlights to think about...on my plane over they were deporting a prisoner from Amsterdam back to Ghana so he was handcuffed to the chair like 8 rows behind me and the flight was delayed because he was making a scenelast night we went to mentor the gha http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Ghana/Greater-Accra/Accra/blog-57932.html May 4th... seems like I should be boarding a plane today...I've spent the last few days getting ready and after buying 5 bottles of sunscreen and 3 bottles of Purell I figure I'm ready for whatever Africa wants to throw at me My final Donation list is below and it has filled two of the largest suitcases I could find... about 70lbs of donations coming with me and another 40lbs coming with my m http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Toronto/blog-57089.html Well as you may or may not know I've been strategically approaching local businesses to get goods donated for the school. I picked up tons more stuff today so I thought the logical step would be to let you all know what I've collected so far From Titles campus bookstore 300 pencils From the McMaster Health Centre 400 bandaids 800 antiseptics From Fortinos 10 dictionnaries 120 big p http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Hamilton/McMaster-University/blog-52005.html So I've lasted this long in my life without the need for a blog but I've decided this is likely the best way to let everyone know what I'm doing this summer. But now back to midterms... I leave in 44 days and have way too much to do between now and then http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Hamilton/McMaster-University/blog-48071.html