I am a bit emotional and a lot of things going through my brain as I leave Kotoka airport for Dubai ( Read more... )

Quick update on today ( Read more... )

Football training (with both my mens team, and even the girls) has been incredibly wonderful of late ( Read more... )

I maintain that you can open your heart to the world without opening your door, that the master indeed travels all day without leaving home ( Read more... )

It dawned on me today, perhaps for the first time: that I am completely, utterly ready to go home ( Read more... )

I neither like nor trust Accra as far as I can throw it. So for me, the premise of a night out on the town with our volunteers comes with a level of EH&S thinking akin to an SAS operative, and I guess being the oldest person in the group (other than Brendan and Neil, of course - the former who I trust completely but who is exhausted on a Saturday ( Read more... )

Saturday was a much better day. I guess in the first instance, blogging everything out really helped me to get a grasp on the extent of the situation, which helped a little bit. Also, Mim helped so much back home (bless her) through soothing words and gentle, endearing encouragement. She even called and we had a nice long chat while she was at Dani ( Read more... )

I guess my heart sank today when I found out that Martin and Liz are getting weekly guidance meetings with one or both of the directors here, of at least 30 minutes duration (today's was an hour and a half), and I've had one - and a poor excuse for one at that ( Read more... )

When I turned 12, my parents very kindly gave me a bicycle ( Read more... )

(written between 7/10 and 21/10 ( Read more... )