Achiase

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I have just finished week two at our project.

We arrived in Achiase on Saturday 23rd August. I call Achiase a village but it’s more like a town; it owes its name to the large tree in the centre that the village has been built around. The tree is the main meeting place. The house I’m staying in belongs to a woman called May. Her husband is a driver, who is currently in Togo. I have four new sisters and two brothers.

The house is nothing like I expected, it’s a lot better of. There is no flushing toilet but there is a shower that hardly ever seems to be working, so it’s frequently a buckety bath, which is incredibly refreshing. I’m sharing a room with the other two guys in the trip; me and Michael share a bed and Eddie has a mattress on the floor. The room is rather good, we've got a fully functioning fan and so far there has been no sign of mosquitoes. I have yet to be bitten! The family are really friendly and they'll do almost anything for us, too much sometimes.

Our project so far has been to continue work on the toilet block, which the last group started, and to lay the foundations for a kitchen for the school. At the moment we've mainly been working at the kitchen site labouring; carrying lots of blocks, mixing cement by hand and supplying it to the local workers who have been laying the blocks.

I've run out of time, the internet is so slow out here!

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Comments

[Chris LJ]

Hi Jack
Glad you are having a good time in Africa. Very quiet here without you! Chris. P.S. Is Michael safe?