What does Ghana look like....and what am I doing here

Oh crap... it's that time again where I'm supposed to write something insightful and deep. Well I'm not feeling particularly deep right now... more tired than anything. Last night I had to sleep in an OK hotel/motel but I knew it would be a bit sketch so I brought an extra bed net. Problem was that the net was treated with something kinda nasty and was supposed to be aired out for 24 hours prior to its first use. I started airing it out at 11pm and decided that it was time to risk the fumes at 4am as it didn't stink as bad then and I was too tired to care.

I'll have a blog post about malaria next week as a number of my friends have already had the clocks cleaned by the parasite already. The part that sketches me out the most is that last weekend I spent the night sleeping next to a friend (who was on my left) that came down hard with malaria the following morning. The room didn't appear to have any skeeters so we just went to bed in our briefs. Let's just hope that any blood suckers in the room got their fill from him and didn't decided to sample me too! Hahaha... it almost seems in vain as I have been bitten maybe 10 times for sure other times and my other friend that slept on my right side that night just got treated for malaria...

Early in the week I was pissed off to find out that mosquitoes were biting thru my light (so I don't sweat to death) long sleeve shirt. Here I trying hard and it barely even matters... I was told that they couldn't do that... oh well, maybe the malaria carrying mosquitos can't bite thru my light shirts... I haven't fallen ill yet... let's just hope my doxy and army of vitamins can hold them at bay! If not, I'll be fine, it will just suck hard for a few days... I'm thinking like a nasty stomach flu experience.

Well... I'm shutting down the internet cafe again, so I will have to head out without saying anything insightful! I won't leave you with nothing though. There are two videos... one explaining my what I'm actually doing in Ghana and the other showing Ghana from the side of a bus (this video was supposed to go earlier but it would not upload so here it is now).

World Vision? Good Development in Ghana?
I've had some very interesting conversations with my coworkers regarding the work of development organizations (government and non) in Ghana. In fact, I promised my coworkers that I would share some of what my friends thought about organizations such as World Vision. Specifically, they wanted to know:
1) What people thought of World Vision
2) What people thougth of the effectiveness of our aid money.

As always, there is no correct answer and all opinions are WANTED!!! We are constantly "extracting" information from "Africans" and there really isn't as much of chance for Africans to get some info from us. If you don't want to share your opinion on the blog as a comment, send me an email adamfraserkruck@ewb.ca I promise to keep your opinion in full confidentiality.

Next week, I'll share their thoughts and responses with you!





Adam :)