Ok, so a small, swift apology for my slackness on the blog. But moving on…I think at the time of my last blog that the UK was swept up in the Olympics whilst Ghana was awash with funeral fever. The President, Prof. John Atta Mills died on 24th July and weeks of tributes followed with a surprising number of recorder solos as the chosen sound of mourning. (Here the humble recorder is not bound to the primary school classroom, oh no, it has scaled majestic devot...

June was a good and busy month in which I was feeling like I was making some real progress at work. Things have been going really well with the District School Management Committee, which is made up of elected community representatives to support improvements in schools. With support it has started to take shape and function like a serious committee. It was agreed that in order to gain office accommodation the DSMC Executive should make formal contact with the t...

Hellooo there. I have made attempts to sort out my crappy internet connection and am very happy to have the world at my fingertips once again! (…or at least once a week when Im at the Bolga office). Things have been going well since I last blogged, both in terms of work and enjoying life in Ghana. Easter weekend, which seems so long ago already, was a lot of fun. It began with a moto-ride east and up to the border with Burkina Faso to a tiny place called Widn...

It's been a busy few weeks here. Had my first little bump to get over with the partner organisation I am placed with. I was getting fed up of being asked to 'be flexible, be flexible, be flexible' when things like meetings to discuss my objectives were cancelled a number of times at the last minute due to some piss-poor planning. After all it took to get here I was starting to feel quite under-valued, so I had a pretty honest chat with my line manager, which was...

Well it's been another sweltering week here in Bolga. We had a couple of English Sunday papers knocking about the house from someone who came to collect success stories on the Tackling Educational Needs Inclusively (TENI) project. There was a fair bit of news on London Fashion Week, so I have been spotting some brave fashions out on the streets of Bolga this week. There are some amazing fabrics and dress designs here, but my anonymous fashion awards go to th...