Hi

Hello again!

So, another few weeks have passed and I am back in Tamale. Things have been great recently. Nothing much of note has happened, but I’ve been having a great time. Let’s see, on Sunday night, we spent the night at Mike’s (a Peace Corps volunteer), which was fun, but much hotter than where we sleep. Potentially because we normally sleep outside and we were in a walled-in compound. Anyway, the next day, we went to the Savelugu market, which is the nearest biggish market to us, it happens every 6 days. We had a ball. We had some really amazing food there. We tried all of these new kinds of fried yumminess. It was great. I also got a few used teeshirts, so I can give the ones I brought to some of the schoolgirls when we leave.

Time is flying. The school week went pretty well after that, Tuesday it rained very heavily, so it was nice and cool for two days. Yesterday, we were invited to one of the main ITFC (Integrated Tamale Fruit Company) guys houses for dinner and to spend the night. Air conditioning! And coffee and cereal with milk for breakfast! We had a test with our 5th and 6th grade in school today. I think they did okay. We are currently working on prepositions, very basic ones (in, on, under…). And now we are in Tamale; tomorrow, we catch a bus to Bolgatanga in the Upper East and then another bus into Burkina Faso for the weekend. We don’t know much about Burkina, but have heard there are fresh strawberries and milkshakes to be had.

I miss you!