A little update

I realized it has been almost two weeks now since my last blog and unfortunately nothing very eventful has taken place to report on. But, I figured I'd update a little on our normal routine life here in Ghana.

Alan's been working like crazy preparing for the big audit starting in August. This means leaving the house at 7:30am and returning home between 7:30-8pm every day just exhausted. We've spent our last few weekends doing a bit of exploring around town. Last weekend we went to a few art galleries that we had not yet been to, went to our basket lady who I frequent to get beautiful hand woven baskets from and bought a few (I tried my hand at bargaining and was horrendous at it according to Alan but got my baskets anyway at seller's price). We had sushi with our friends Uxoa and Carlos and their girls because their older girl LOVES sushi. I've never seen a 5-year old gobble up some sushi rolls like her. It was pretty funny!

We took a nice drive to the next town over and explored some unknown roads we'd never been on before. We found ourselves in a suburban like part of town with sort-of-strip malls...it was interesting at least to see. We amazingly made it back home without getting too lost.

My days have been filled with a few things. I've been working about 10-15 hours a week at the NGO, Chance for Children which is split between hours at their drop-in center in meetings and working from home. It's been a really challenging but interesting experience mostly because the things I've been trying to implement to create more structure and accountability are not going down so well for the staff. There is a mixture of resistance, confusion, power struggles, and just a different sort of work ethic than I'm used to so I've been working on my patience.

Otherwise, I've been working on my sewing and have made a few things to wear and for around the house. The ladies in my sewing/needlepoint group have given me some pointers on learning to quilt so I've tried my hand at that too.






And at the same time, I'm trying to get a little cake/pastry business started that I can do on the side and from home. I've gotten some business cards made



and have a few small orders mostly from friends. Gradually, I hope to spread the word and build it a bit. I might even suggest that the bar/restaurant/coffee shop at our apartment complex sell some things but not sure if they'll go for it.

I've been working on learning how to make new things like bagels. I've gotten pretty good and they taste amazing so I make a batch almost every weekend and share with our friends and neighbors.



That's about it for now. We plan to go to the beach this Sunday with some friends which we're looking forward to and I'll be sure to take lots of pictures! Maybe we'll even look for the lobster lady.