Me! Lean and mean or emaciated? You be the judge! Also check out that sandal tan.
Forgive the wait, but I’m back with a brief update and a couple of pictures. Abbey and I have mostly just been working away. Sammie and Duffy have been traveling with Duffy’s family, so it’s just been us, Bridget, and the constant stream of friends that Bridget brings over to study.
It seems that the days are slightly shorter now, probably because it’s winter on the one hand, but largely just because the hamatan is really starting to block out the sky. The sun is still coming up around 5:30-5:45–at least I think it is. But it doesn’t rise above the haze until sometime after 7am. It’s pretty odd to see the sun starting to shine through as a deep orange ball. I’ll try and get some pics one of these mornings.
We made a new yevu friend down it Atorkor. A volunteer came to work with the Atorkor Developer Foundation. That’s the organization that Sammie originally came through to set up Lumana. Anyway, her name is Mandy Sladkey and she’s staying in the same complex as our office all by herself. Unacceptable! We had her over for dinner the other night and Bridget gave us a lesson on cooking Babara beans. Mandy’s a strict vegetarian so she’s been cooking for herself, but has felt a bit limited the available ingredients. Bridet will have her squared away in no time.
We also had her over for Market Day yesterday. She showed up early and caught me in my natural habitat–hardly dressed and working in my notebook on a website outline. We wowed her with our coffee supplies and did her up a cup (she helped, to be fair). Always good to make a new friend! She’s coming with us to Dzita today as well, just because she has nothing else to do and we told her about what a nice walk it is. I’ll post a link to her personal blog once I get it from her.
You can check out her blog here.
Site Announcements:
- There are no less than 5 Ewe lessons now! I had an Ewe lesson marathon yesterday. Thanks to Mister Seth Kordorwu for entertaining me at his house on Friday and helping me to clarify a few points I was struggling with. Please comment on anything that you find confusing about the lessons. They need review and revision!
- The header has changed. Not really a big deal, but I just don’t want anyone to confuse this change for the redesign of the site that I’ve been talking about. When that happens, you should be able to tell pretty clearly.
- Really having a tough time with the GH internet lately, so I apologize if updates are few and far between. Next time I’m in Accra I’m going to walk into the office of the President of Vodafone, and grab him by his big fat head, and say, “Listen man, I’m not going to jail for you, or anybody!”
- I digress.
Stay safe and I’ll be back with more updates soon.
fantastic photos Chad. Looks like you’re having a good time. What camera are you using?
Thanks Andy! Right now I’m using whatever I can get my hands on. My own camera has a nasty scratch on the lens so I’m bumming from others. The pictures above were taken on a Nikon D7000. In less than two weeks my parents are coming to visit and brining my new camera though, a Cannon T2i, which will be very nifty. I owe them one thousand hugs and nearly one thousand dollars for it, but it will be really nice to be able to do my own thing in the photography department.
If you’re curious about a specific picture, it usually says in the upper-left hand corner of the flickr page for a given image.
That’s great your parents are making the trip! Tell them hi for me! Thanks for the camera info.