Friday, August 19, 2011

Ghana, Day 8 - Musty Tomes

Hi Ruth!

Today, I actually mostly worked, and most of it is boring to talk about with you. I made a lot of phone calls, and made some meetings. Then I went to the library:

From Where in the World is Dad?


Pretty cool, huh?

Believe it or not, part of the reason I'm here is for books. I know - we have plenty of books at home! [Non-Ruth readers: she likes to compare my work area upstairs to the massive library in Beauty and the Beast]

But, remember how I told you that there isn't fighting in Ghana now? And there hasn't really ever been lots of fighting, like in Liberia, or Rwanda, or Congo? Well, that's great for Ghana, and makes it a much nicer place to be most of the time (though I really liked Liberia). But because there hasn't been a big war, it means that not as many people have written about Ghana - sad, but true, that people like to write about fighting. And most of the people who have written about Ghana published their books here, so they are hard to find where we live. But the big library here has copies, so I'm here partly just to read some of them and learn more.

Unfortunately, there are very few pictures.

Then I had lunch with Dr. Ani. Grampy asked me to say more about the people I work with, so I'll talk more about him in a bit. But there was this crazy fountain outside the place we ate:

From Where in the World is Dad?

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