The Upper Best : )

Hey guys,

I'm in Wa right now the capital of the Upper West region of Ghana. It's wonderful. It's a very nice quiet town. It makes me loathe Kumasi even more than I already do :) So I got 17 min of Internet time, lemme try to dqueeze it all in.

Monday, I bought my ticket to Wa at 930am, the bus did not leave Kumasi until 2pm. Fun fun. The bus breaks down twice on the road, luckily while it was still daylight. Whenever the bus stoped I got up or out and walked around.....everyone thought I was in a hurry, no my legs were just cramping up......When we reached the Upper West region, it was 830 or so, i think, anyway it was dark and it'd been a long journey....we stopped for food and when we came back to leave, the mate and some passenger started fighting.....(why do i always see fighting? watching violent films, i can't do anymore cuz i've seen enough real violence that it just gets to me) serious fighting, the driver started driving away and the mate climbed on and the passenger was trying to pull the mate down....me and my wonderful thoughtfulness, told them in Enlugh and in Twi to "stop, i don't like that" which recently has worked for me, but not this time, so I wnated them to stop so bad I srayed my ginger and red pepper drink in the passengers eyes! thank god he didn't know it was me....what was i thinking? i wasn't.....anyway, this was even more close seeming as how the mate sat on the stairs of the bus and i was sitting directly behind the stairs....so it was righ in my face....anyway the bus doesnt pull into Wa until 230am....but James was a great friend and was waiting for me since 10pm! so i waasn't out in the dark alone :)

Now. Tuesday, i got to walk around Wa see Sarah B, Lexie, Jenell, and Mike and we watched the Ghana Brazil game......tsk tsk tsk on the refs....there was at least one goal that Brazil was offsides and the refs ok'ed it......so that was a real bummer. And then it was too late to catch a car to kulkpong James' village so we spent the night in Wa again.

Wed we caught a "tro" it was a pick up with benches in the back, to Kulkpong. that was fun, but a little long and my legs we cramping up again . haha. And it was market day, I got to try Pito! if you swallow it fast, it leaves a taste like Cider, but it you swallow it slowly to savor the taste, gross! We also bought pig meat and made light soup that night.....pork is good :) espeocially fresh pork and damn i can make a good light soup now :)

Thursday, didn't do much started p[lanning our HIV/AIDS talk and stuff. I got to try T-Z, it was good!

and this morning i had milk....cow's milk....they just boil it up here and add sugar and milllet.....it was tasty......not pasturized, but i'm ok right now......

NOw i'm in Wa and James has to help some ghanaians write a monthly report on Trachoma, or Guinea worm, i forget....anyway, so i'll get to experience what writing with Ghanaians is like. That reminds me, this morning, there was a suspect case of Guinea worm, so i got to go and see....the worm hasn't come out yet, so we don't know for sure, and the woman claims to have only been drinking bore hole water but you can't be guinea worm from bore hole water, so she's lying, anyway, it was fun.

So that's the jist of my week. Oh i'll be herer until next friday......

happy 4th everyone

Krisi