I apologize in advanced for the poor organization of this post.

So I’m currently at my internship at the LRC trying to kill the last half hour of the day before I go home. I really hope that I end up in some profession where I don’t have to work a traditional nine to five job in an office. While the work that I’m doing is interesting enough, I’m just too antsy for it. Perhaps that will all change in the future, who know?

The past few days have been really lazy for me. I’ve not been feeling too terribly well, but at least I don’t have malaria. On Chocolate Day, I took some more fabric to Marjorie, our resident dressmaker. Normally she comes to us, but a group of us went to her place this time. It’s pretty unbelievable how she works. She has a small hut which she and another woman share. There’s pretty poor lighting and definitely no air-conditioning. I guess it’s good that she even has a space, but I know I for sure would never be able to work in those conditions (that’s what years of Arizona living with constant AC will do to you). When we were there we met her two young daughters, both of whom were the spitting image of her. I never really thought about whether or not Marjorie had kids before, but now that I know it makes me feel kind of bad that I only pay 5 cedi for a dress. I have to guess though that that is a better per hour wage than a lot of jobs in Ghana. The other week I met some foreigners who had been in Ghana to volunteer. They had been stationed in Cape Coast and were in Accra because they were headed home. They told Griffin and me that where they had been working, many of the families lived on only 50 pesawa a day. That’s whole perspective makes me think that Marjorie might not have it so bad compared to other Ghanaians, but it still makes you wonder.

On Saturday, Caroline and I walked to Osu to get dinner. We ended up getting some pretty awesome Indian food. After eating dinner, we walked outside of the restaurant, which had no windows, come to find it was pouring rain out! Neither of us was dressed for rain or had an umbrella (it has only rained once before the entire time we’ve been here), so we had no choice but to take a taxi back. The taxi driver was being kind of annoying and wouldn’t take us all the way so we got out and still had to walk a couple blocks in the rain. Needless to say, we got laughed at by a few people as we were soaking wet obrunis.

Oh! Last Thursday, Caroline, Griffin and I totally brought Mexico to Ghana. We made a phenoooooomenal Mexican feast. We had homemade tortillas (not perfectly round, but delicious none the less), incredibly spicy salsa, Mexican rice, and fajitas. Surprisingly enough it was all really, really good. I was kind of expecting it to be not so good, but it was great!

I’m totally posting this several days late after it was written, so here is some of what has happened since:

Tuesday night a bunch of us went to a Seun Kuti concert at the Alliance Francaise. Seun Kuti is the son of Fela Kuti, who basically invented AfroBeat. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti ) It was really, really good but only white people (mostly) were there! We asked our CRA why more Ghanaians didn’t go and he said it was because of the location. Regardless, I had a great time.

On Wednesday day, I got two of my dresses from Marjorie. They are absolutely beautiful and I am in love with them. PEOPLE - SEND ME YOUR MEASUREMENTS SO I CAN GET THINGS MADE FOR YOU. DO IT!

This weekend I’m doing a homestay in Accra. Since we do dorm living while abroad, NYU works with an organization called AFS to organize weekend homestays while we are here. I’m pretty excited, but a little nervous. I’m being placed with Marta, another girl from the program, so at least I won’t be alone. I leave for that this afternoon and return Sunday night.

As for right now, I’m off to the Burkinabe embassy to get my visa to go to Burkina Faso next week for FESPACO! I’m so excited. Hopefully getting this visa won’t be too much of a hassle.

peace and love