Fuveme Excursion

My time in Ghana is rapidly coming to an end!  I’ve got five days left and then I’m off for another leg of my journey in Europe.  The site has been changing a bit and will continue to change over the next week.  You can now check out the articles section, though admittedly it still isn’t very organized.  I’m getting around to it!  Also the Ewe lessons are missing for the moment.  They’ll be back with a vengeance.  I want to get a total of 20 up before I leave–right now I’m at 14.  Wish me luck.

Times are definitely changing here in Anloga.  Bridget’s friends have all disappeared now that they’ve graduated.  I didn’t realize how many of them were only in town for school: all of them.  Also my replacements are here: Lindsey and Eric.  They’ve been jumping-to with running the operation and I’ve shrunk back into the shadows, providing input when needed, mostly working on Ewe Lessons.  In the meantime… an excursion!

Jos protects her brother from the scary yevu.

One of Bridget’s friends, Josephine, is from a fairly remote village at the mouth of the Volta called Fuveme.  I promised I’d come and visit her once before I leave so Bridget and I headed down there today.  For a change of pace, I brought my camera.  New pictures abound!  If you can’t tell from the photo above, we had to take a ferry to get to Fuveme.

Bridget got all fancied-up for our trip, and I came in my normal, scrubby ensemble.  Thank god there are no pictures of me.  We made it out to the village without too much trouble, and Jos waited on us with true Ewe hospitality.  Fuveme is pretty damn small–I’d say a couple hundred tops–and we walked the length of the village in just a few minutes.  We went to the school where I was naturally a big hit.  It was the first time I’ve seen school buildings constructed entirely of palm-fronds and sticks.  Most of the buildings were cement though.  It seems like most of the people in the village raise goats, pigs and ducks, all of which were prolific.  Also there were more dogs than I’ve seen anywhere else.  And let’s not forget TINY PUPPY!!

Since Jos and Bridget were both all pimped out, we had to do some glamour shots. We walked out on the sea side and got to enjoy a fantastic breeze. I’m getting all sentimental! Ghana is awesome and it’s tough to leave. Anyway, once we snapped Bridget and Jos’s new Facebook profile pics, we headed back to the river-side of town and got back on the Ferry. See you next time around Jos!