My days now consist of being confined to a chair, surrounded by multi-colored sticky notes plastered to my dining room table, piles of textbooks, dry erase boards, and a day planner color coded with details about the set routine for each day. Very rarely do I realize what day of the week it is. Time is eluding and illusory. Just like when my first semester of the exciting journey of nursing school started 1 year…
I’m convinced that I have an actual physical addiction to chocolate. I was feeling awful for the majority of the afternoon yesterday – lethargic, nauseated, and all around sickly. I found myself incessantly craving chocolate. It was then that I realized I had packed a package of Nature’s Way chocolate chip cookies from home – that’s right, the kind that are soft when you bite into them with extra chocolate chips. I cannot accurately…
The way of Ghanian life is a simple but beautiful one. Clothes are hand washed and hung on a clothesline to dry and cooking is done outside over coals. The power cuts out 4 times a day on average, for anywhere from 5 minutes to 5 hours. I’ve made great use of my head lamp. African people of ALL ages live to dance. They have such exuberant smiles and spirits! One of my room-mates…
Today is the coolest it has been since I arrived in Ghana on Friday night. Upon walking off the plane I was unpleasantly greeted by some of the most ferocious heat and humidity I’ve ever experienced. Rain has befriended us the past couple days – amazing what a lovely benefit it has on my overall affect. I only left home 6 days ago now but it feels like so much has transpired since then.…
It feels like I’ve been sucked into a blackhole where time has entirely come to a halt. It takes 10-15 minutes to load one page and I’m using a fellow volunteer’s computer (she has this awesome internet stick that allows internet access anywhere you are)…. otherwise the closest internet cafe is 45 minutes away. In a nutshell, I arrived in Ghana on Friday at 10:30 p.m., slept for 2 hours at a volunteer house with…