The Last Months

Well, the countdown has begun---I'll be returning to America on July 17!  In these last months, I've attended my Close of Service conference, and I'm currently wrapping things up at my school.  In a few days, I'll be traveling south to meet the new group of education trainees, and I'll be staying there for 1 month to help them prepare for their work in Ghana.  I'm excited to be working as a trainer, and I hope I can impart some valuable knowledge and experience to the new group of Deaf Art volunteers (including my replacement!!).

Yay!  COS conference at a fancy hotel! 

This is our Peace Corps Ghana Country Director, Mike.

This is all the Deaf Art volunteers from the 50th Ghana group.

This is Ernie, one of the older volunteers, and a really great guy.  Thankfully, he will be living relatively close to Mark and I back in America, and we're planning to visit him fairly soon.  

This is the tallest mountain in Ghana, Mt. Afadjito.  Yes, I know it doesn't look very tall.  It only took us 30 minutes to hike to the top, and from there we could clearly see that the mountain (far left) across the valley in Togo was definitely taller.  

View from the top.

Big tree.

This is Dan, my fellow teacher, and part of his family.

This is Alhassan Mohammed, another fellow teacher.

This is Wisdom, Dan's son.  I've been buying his affection with bananas and cookies.

This is Fouzia, she teaches JHS english.  Go ladies!  

We played a malaria pinata game for World Malaria Day.  The kids were so excited about the candy, that I couldn't get them to back away from the person swinging the stick.  So a few kids got a good whack.