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I have been slacking on the blogging front, so there's lots to update you all on!
Mid-Phase Review (where we go away from the community for a couple of nights to review what w've achieved so far, if we're on target etc) was amazing. As if having a toilet and a swimming pool and a restaraunt that serves pizza (!!!!!) was not enough, we had jeep safaris to search for elephants as we were residing inside Mole National Park.
The volunteers loved it and made the most of much missed luxury and food before all too soon it was over and back to work.
To make the most of our weekends and to try and make being in a very rural area up North more exciting, I try and push for lots of social activities.
This weekend we took all of the volunteers to Burkina Faso where I managed to get some more stamps (but alas, on paper as my passport is locked safely away in Accra) before driving through the border and promptly being sent back again by the angriest french speaking gaurd with a gun that i've ever seen.
Ghana is definitely more friendly and the guard reminded me of my time in Nigeria where if you (even accidently) did not show respect to someone then there was no way they would lift a finger to help you or forgive you. Still, being kicked out of a country can now be crossed off my bucket list.
On the way back to Jirapa, we stopped by Mushroom Rocks which is exactly as it sounds. Large rocks that look a bit like mushrooms. Safe to say that we are now scrapping the barrell of ideas of where to take them now but actually it seemed most of the volunteers relished the opportunity to be cavemen and scale the rocks and be physical.
We are going to a hippo sanctuary in 2 weeks time and after that it will very nearly be time to come home!.. Just as well as there is literally nothing else to see/do it fun-wise but Jirapa still has a place in my heart.
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