My time at WAAF is flying by. The Kid's Fair I'm planning is this Saturday. It has taken so much time but everything is coming together. We finally picked up one of the checks from a sponsor today so that was a relief. Now I know for sure I can pay for the Kid's Fair so that is good. I'm also spending a large part of my time writing a proposal for the Ghana Aids Commission. Funding from this proposal would help WAAF establish a program to reduce HIV prevalence and increase health for sex workers in Ghana. I'm learning a lot about international proposal writing. However, the time crunch is that it is due Monday and the Kid's Fair is this Saturday. A very busy week for me....

Now for a short story (my mother probably thinks I was irresponsible but really we were safe, I promise).

Jessica and I went to Kakum National Park last weekend. We heard you can stay at the Park and maybe see monkeys and forest elephants so we thought that would be great. Well...you just never know in Ghana. We arrived at the park and the guy said that we can't see elephants. Apparently they are deep into the forest. So then he asked if we wanted to stay there and do the early morning canopy walk. We said yes and he asked if we wanted to stay at the lodge or camp. He said camping was on a platform. So we were thinking that the platform was in a tree because we had heard you can do that. Well, when we got to the "platform" about a five minute walk into the forest from the tourist center, we found out that the "platform" was actually on the ground with mattresses on it and mosquito nets. So Jessica and I stayed in the forest. There is a security guard at the park and people do camp there a lot. However, after it got dark, we heard a noise, really close to us. We started getting freaked out. It stopped and we settled down but then Jessica said, "Something is moving that bag!" So we both freaked out until I saw the foot of a rat that apparently chewed through the bag to get to some bread we had. So we took the food and put it away from us. However, we were so freaked out that we barely slept (maybe 2 hours) the whole night. Needless to say, we saw no animals on the canopy walk the next morning...and we left the park dirty and gross as soon as the walk was done. We went into Cape Coast and find a nice, cheap hotel to stay our second night (it actually had hot water). Needless to say, I don't plan on staying in a forest for a long long time. That might have been the longest night of my life. At least I can laugh about it now.