Sooooo right now I'm still in the (relatively) tame locale of Dallas, Texas, but I am doing so much reading on Ghana and Africa and a variety of potential research topics that I feel like I am already in the "field," that is, GHANA!! I am going to be arriving in Accra, the capital of Ghana, on September 1, 2006. Even after all the reading and websearching I have done, I still don't know what to expect... which is thrilling. I will be there for 3 and a half months through the School for International Training (SIT). From what I know about the program we will just be immersed in to the Ghanaian culture, starting with a homestay about a week after we arrive. Like the dork I am, I have already started practicing the language.
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