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First Day of Group 4
Monday, June 12, day 39 - first day of training with the fourth group here in Ghana ( Read more... ) -
A Bus Journey
Tuesday, June 6th, Day 33 - The usual lecture the first part of the day ( Read more... ) -
Need... caffeine
Monday, June 5th, day 32 - i think after eating mostly rice for a month changing things up with Indian food threw my stomach for an absolute loop. I wasn't hungry for breakfast, i was only able to pick at my lunch, and even my light dinner of mangos and watermelon i only ate the mangos (tbh the watermelon seemed to taste strange ( Read more... ) -
In Which the Gloves Come Off
Wednesday, May 31st, Day 27 - This group continues to be enjoyable, attentive, asking engaging questions, as they were yesterday, but now also developing a sense of commraderie and starting to joke around a bit (in a good way).
Covered topbar hives and the beginning of doing hive inspections during lecture time.
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First Day of Group 2
Monday, May 30th, Day 26 - Today was the first day with a new group. It's once again "youth" so should be demographically and generally just like the previous group ( Read more... ) -
Day 4 - Crash Course in Stirring Up Bees
Monday, May 8th, Day 4 - breakfast at the hotel at 8:30 - long French bread baguettes are delicious. Nescafe less so. And omelets are dependable throughout the world, though they could use some cheese here ( Read more... ) -
Sanpiring 8 years later
August 2nd, Day 11 - last day of the training. We began with finishing the processing of honey, then reviewed things and wrapped up. The prefect came again, this time in green fatigues and a green beret. I'm so bad at recognizing people i didn't realize it was the same prefect that was at Ibro's yesterday (nor at that time that it was the same ( Read more... )
