Again, massive apologies for the lateness of the blog! I have now settled in Tumu but am now over 2 weeks behind and was going to spend the weekend catching up but I seemed to be the only person in Tumu who was unaware that they were shutting the power off for the weekend as I don't have a personal radio. (Goodbye frozen mountain of hacked chicken, but more about that later!). So much has happened since Accra, I have encountered scrum hat wearing children, watche...

So it turns out that volunteering includes a room with aircon, hot running water, a swimming pool, three buffet meals a day and wi-fi! (At least until I headed up north, but that was a whole week away and so I pushed it right to the back of my mind). The first few days we spent in the hotel in lectures and doing activities. The most useful was talking to a rep about what life was going to be like up north. It turns out that every VSO house is kitted out with a ...