Monday, September 28, 2009

Wake me up when September Ends

So the month of september has, pretty much, gone by. It is odd, it seems as though each day is long yet each month is short. At this point though I just need to make it through October and November, and then the early days in December are as the finish line to getting home. I have been doing well, I have not yet cought Malaria or anything like that. I do expect to, the vast majority of students studying here get Malaria, and it is treated among the locals as a cold is treated in the states. I have been doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, excersizing and playing sports, reading, talking, hanging out, watching movies, making friends and all that other stuff just fine. I am enjoying the hot weather as much I can, remembering the icy cold of how michigan can be , and making the best of it being warm for the majority of the time. This weekend we are going on a trip to another region, which I am looking forward to. In 2 weeks we'll be starting mid terms, then the week after that we have mid term break. 1 more week in classes and then its november, so I suspect October will go by fairly easily and swiftly as well. As mentioned earlier, it seems as though the months do. The days however are a different story.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Alright, so I guess some people are reading this and keeping tabs, and I don't intend to disappoint. Back home Oakland finally started today, after a week long hault of negotiation between administration and faculty. Which is good in a way, the last week I wish I was around there for the adventure and whatnot, but now its all over. here i've been working at my internship, mondays and tuesdays, at the west africa aids foundation. Im in charge of giving ideas and bettering the website, creating informational pamphlets, and part of a group which is celebrating a hue 10 year anniversary event for the organization. Classes are going good, im in class for a grand total of about 5 hours per week. 1 class I find boring and long. One I find interesting and long, one I find short and interesting. The long ones are 2 hours, the short is only 1. I have my history of Ghana class, socialogy/development in ghana class and a short internship class. They're all going fairly well I suppose. I have been doing a lot of walking around, mostly by myself, often at night. There is geat weather here to just wander around and enjoy. From my experiences it is relatively safe, my greatest problem with the area is having mosquito bites on my arms, growing the chances that I will catch, or already have, Malaria or some other random disease. In any case thats a short update on me, everyones comments are eatly apprectated (so I am assured people are actually reading), and I will write again soon. Until next time everyone.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

over 2 weeks

Today marks over 2 weeks of me being here. I feel like... no, I know im missing a lot back home and i can do nothing about it. I have to get used to being here I guess. Time sees to fly here, every day going by, going by, i cant believe its been two weeks. Its september now. I have, like, 15 weeks left at this point. when i look at 15 the number it seems small, weeks go by so quickly here, though nothing is rushed. I spend time reading books and talking to people for the most part, much different from back home. I spend time thinking, laying in bed, staring up... just thinking. I wonder why im here to some extent, believing I have worth back in the States and people need me and go back, then the sinking feeling in my gut kicks in and tells me I am not really needed anywhere and the three words about life still stand "it goes on". I have a feeling nobody is really reading this, and thats fine, i havent written in a while and nobodies really complained. That is to be expected i guess. I'm just not exciting, old news. Above that I have no news, here is more of a void than anything. A lot of my stories i've realized are from parties and times with close friends but I have neither of those here so I have nothing to talk about. I dont want the simple "went to class and couldn't understand teacher" or "at my internship and blogging" like i am right now to be all this is. The weathers hot, yes. The water you cant drink, no hot water in the house. theres spicey food, people urinate when they want. public transport are vans. English is the official language, though hardly anyone speaks it. Really, aside from that I dont know what to say. that sums it up thus far. Its more like a vacation to hang out and calm down and have nothing happen in your life. For me, though, my life involves so many others, and when my life comes to this 4 month calm halting period, where i get more than enough sleep and rest and whatnot, everyone elses lives are picking up, its the fall... school is starting,new friends to be made, recruitment for orgs, meeting teachers...finding new loves and burying the ideas of old ones. As everyones lives advance to these things mine lays dormant, unmoving. I will wake up in michigan in the middle of December and it wont seem like i was here. It will seem like a dream to me, and reality would have passed as though I was in a coma for 4 months and i will have to readapt to the world then. I don't know if i'll be able to or not, but trying to keep up with it, trying to keep my standing in the world ground is trivial, for it moves when i do not. The world is the quicksand and I am but dormantly standing on it, ever sinking, and I wonder wether the time I can finally move will be a time I can still breathe, gasp for air and get on with everything, or if it will be a time when i have sunk too deep.