A group of volunteers went to visit the Volta region this weekend, but seeing as it was the end of my first week here and I was still a bit tired from the trip and getting adjusted I decided to stay in our Elmina house, reading and relaxing. Like I said before, we live right by the Elmina Beach Resort and we all have pool passes. So most of Saturday was spent at the pool, reading and taking occasional swims.
I have done a lot of reading. There isn't much to do anyway, life is very slow here which can be nice. I tried sleeping in saturday and sunday but found it surprisingly difficult, waking up constantly to all sorts of noises, mostly from the surrounding animals. Sunday at about 3am I woke up to the sound of chickens fighting right outside my window. One of these chickens apparently flew or hopped away from the group and the fighting stopped. I closed my eyes again. Then I heard what sounded like an awful, loud, chicken cry. I opened my eyes to see Appia (our groundskeeper/night watch) walking past my window holding the chicken by its legs (at least that's what it looked like). The chicken was wailing loudly, one of the worst sounds I've ever heard in my life. Then it sounded like Appia threw the chicken where it belonged. And then, silence. So after the commotion was over, I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep.
I found myself really missing my close friends and family at the end of my first week. Not because I don't like it here, but because... well, I miss them. But I'll say this, praise the Lord for Skype and the opportunity to have internet connection. Calculating the 6 hour difference, I was finally able to talk to my family.
It is going to get a lot busier around the office as we are designing and testing out new stuff for the 2011 Global Mamas catalog. Obviously, I will not be able to show any design development due to confidentiality. So you'll have to wait until the catalog comes out.
One week down. 7 to go!
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