New Guys!

The new guys have arrived, and I am preparing to leave. There are 7 new volunteers, but 3 of them are in Beseyase (sp) - another town nearby. We spent Sunday trying to get the house ready for the volunteers. When we arrived none of the floors were down, the walls in all the bedrooms needed some paint, the celling in one room was only half painted and the tiling hadn't been started in the kitchen or bathroom. We were assured that it would all be finished by the time they arrived - in about 5 hours. It didn't seem feasible then...and its still not finished. When it is done it will be a lovely house, but its incredibly annoying that they didn't complete on time, and refused to admit that they wouldn't.

The new guys are really nice. There are 4 Americans here - all around my age which is nice. Three of them knew each other in some way and are all from New Jersey, the fourth is from New Orleans and has a nice accent. They are all fitting in OK and seem to be getting on with the Ghanaian way of things. The volunteers at Beseyasee (I have no idea how to spell it) are really cool. There is a father and daughter team from Yorkshire and an American woman. They have coped with the building works really well, and seem to be taking it all in thier stride. They are gonna have a lot of work ahead of them as the facilities and school just aren't as good as in Brenu. Sabre have only just started working there so its not developed as muhc, and some of the school fell down in the recent storms. Apart from that everything continues retty much as normal. I will be leaving on saturday, and have booked a hotel in Accra for two days to meet the Yeboahs before heading up with them.