Written at 9:30 AM on Monday October 20
Ohhh jeez am I tired. These four day weekends really take it out of a girl... I’m currently writing on an internet-less internet cafe computer... Surprise, surprise. So I’m saving this to post later when a connection to the world wide web can be made.
Oh, Ghana. How your lack of connection to the outside world torments me. Although, this does provide me the opportunity to do my NGO grant proposal that I’m supposed to type up, like... now. But I don’t want to. I want to play spider solitare and wait endlessly for Gmail to load.
So this weekend we went on our final Tufts trip to Eastern Region, where we basically hung out on Lake Volta the whole time. I was really okay with that because this heat gives me the unbelievable urge to swim, all the time. Which I did, twice on Saturday. Our hotel was gorgeous and had a pretty good pool which I took full advantage of. Of course, that means I am slightly crispy as my skin still doesn’t understand the difference between tanning and burning and I tend to just skip the former and go straight to the latter.
We toured Akosombo Dam, the hydroelectric dam that gives Ghana 70% of its electricity. The tour guide was weird and wouldn’t let us take pictures during the tour and then gave us 5 minutes at the end to take some. It didn’t make sense to me, but what are you going to do?
We also went bead shopping, which was a huge success. I absolutely love that Tufts’ stipend is large enough for us to go buck wild in our souvenir shopping and we don’t have to pay for it. I haven’t spent a cent of my own money since I’ve been here. Which means Tufts paid for my vacation to Green Turtle, all of the souvenirs I’ve bought so far, all of my travel, food, my all-too-often clinic visits and medication, my long distance, 2-hour phone conversations, etc, etc. Thanks Tufts! I knew my tuition was going somewhere!
Then yesterday we went on a 4.5 hour boat cruise on Lake Volta. Which was surprisingly fun! They fed us and gave us drinks and we lounged about in the sun (and in the shade when I started to turn pink) and talked and read and journaled and watched the beautiful scenery pass by... It felt very much like I had gone on a cruise with my friends for spring break. Which got us thinking about going on a cruise together for spring break. Because it would be sooo much fun. Too bad Lauren has to be stupid and going abroad to Hong Kong next semester. Way to go, Lauren. haha
Okay, so I really should be doing my work, for real. More later.
Written at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, October 22
Okay, not having internet sucks a whole lot more than I imagined it would. The campus wireless is down and most of the internet cafes on campus use that network server... so almost everything is shut down. I'm in a cafe in another dorm on campus that miraculously is still connected to the outside world.
This wouldn't be nearly as bad if I didn't have a class presentation TOMORROW and the group I'm working with hasn't even met once. GREATTT. Also we have no guidelines for this presentation so we have absolutely no idea what to do... Oh, and we are presenting on Domestic Violence Law in Ghana... but no one can find the law. Yep. This is my life.
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