Ghana, Day 30 - Work Weekend

Hi Ruth!

I'm still in Ghana.  But!  It is now well more than halfway to when you and Mommy come!  Which makes me very happy.

This weekend, I've mostly been working.  Yesterday, I woke up a bit late because people were singing in the field near my house, very loud, and it kept me up during the night.  There are actually people singing there almost every night, but usually it's quiet enough that I can fall asleep. Not Friday night!

Anyway, after I got up and worked for a while - I finished reading a book called The Moral Imagination, which is about how to try to make peace when people are fighting, especially by doing creative things like art with them - I decided to finally hook up the gas stove.

I had been a bit worried, because I've never had a stove like this before!  It has a big gas tank, and you have to light it with a match.  But I finally figured out how to make it work, and it didn't explode, and I don't smell any gas in the kitchen, so I think I did it right.  To celebrate, I cooked some pasta with tomatoes and garlic, yum.

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Then I worked some more, and then I went out to dinner with Dr. Bill and Ms. Theresa, from next door. Dr. Carl and Ms. Anne-Marie ended up joining us, and their friend Dr. Bill, who teaches in the History department. We went to the Nigerian restaurant that I think is the best one near here. They were all going out to see a play, but I was more excited to go to the office and talk to you!
Today, I mostly worked again. I tried to go swimming this morning, to get some exercise, but I forgot that this is Ghana and almost everything is closed on Sundays. The place was all locked up when I got there! But, along the way, I saw a huge church that was temporarily set up in the field near the flat (the same one with the singing).

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So I just came home and made some oatmeal. I talked to Ms. Theresa a bit about the work she's doing at the Osu Children's library - I may go with her sometimes to help people learn how to read. And then I read, and wrote. And I cleaned the flat, which will probably make mommy surprised - I even swept and mopped! Then I ate some goat soup, and now I'm writing to you, and as soon as I'm done I'm going to the office so I can talk to you on the computer again!