I am traveling a few days right now with my friends from Norway. We went to a beautiful Green Turtle Lodge on the beach and now we are in Kumasi. I've seen some interesting things. It's kind of weird to feel like a tourist for these few days because I have been working and living in Accra for over a month now. It's weird to be a white person just traveling around. But it's ok.

I am pretty sure that my food poisoning was actually Malaria. I went to Ho in the Volta region last Friday. We went around and took some HIV educational tools to different VCT centers and spoke with the directors of the centers. It was really interesting. However, on the way back I got a fever and felt very sick. Fifi, a guy a work with, said it was probably Malaria so he took me to get the medicine and I just started taking it right away. Saturday morning was awful. I could barely walk. But by Saturday night I was able to eat, so that was good. I felt much better on Sunday. They say when you start the medicine, it kicks in really quickly. I think they were right. I think the sickness last week was just the start of the Malaria...not food poisoning. But I am much better now...thankfully.

One interesting thing...when I first came to Ghana, I found I wanted to greet everyone. They all say O'bruni and I wave. But I realized that after a while it gets really tiring. I noticed that other white volunteers that had been in Ghana longer just kind of ignored the attention. I find myself wanting to do that now. So I'm trying to figure that out now. How to be friendly when I just want to blend in sometimes. It's difficult. But i still love Ghana. It's a good country.