Sometime ago when I heard some teachers talking about spam, I thought they were discussing their lunch packets, and was vaguely curious as to how Mrs spam had made it all the way to Ghana. I figured it must have arrived with Mr corned beef (which strangely enough you can buy for 6 cedis (£2), almost half my daily salary so it must be a delicacy). However, I have since discovered the meaning of SPAM - and been fully immersed into a world of them - School Pe...

The Christians of Ghana follow many different strands of faith, so many that it's sometimes hard to keep up with all the different types (I am always getting my singing and dancing Anglicans mixed up with my speaking in tongues Adventists). So far I've been to a few interesting Catholic church services (purely accidentally after getting to know the girls singing and drama group that practice outside the church in the late afternoons when I was on my way home f...

(Written Sunday 1st July) It has been a while! I have to admit, I have been kind of sucked into life here, and the last six weeks have passed in an absolute blur of noisy children in schools, colourful parents at advocacy meetings, speeches, African dancing and prayers at community events, and the squeeling and goo-goo-ing of bundles of babies at numerous baby shows (posts to follow to explain what on earth I am going on about!). It's as though a soon as I ...

Wow. I have made it! Past the madness that carried me here, over the terrifying threshold of mastering the moto, through the weeks of cultural confusion and fuzzy heat-induced light-headedness, and beyond the 'What am I doing? Why on earth am I here?' bouts of confusion, I can happily say I am well and truly settled in. Hurrah! So I am celebrating.... By cleaning! Now, this is not how I planned to spend my Saturday...but when I got up this morning some...

I am just back from what has got to be the highlight of the week - distributing toys to two World Vision schools. My 5 year old nephew had recently asked me in an email "Aunty Emma Do they go to a school? What kind of equipment is there? Because in my school there are lots of learning toys like magnets, bricks, and toy dinosaurs." My response was to tell him... "Some of the children do go to school. They go after all the chores they have to do such as ...