Tolon-Kunbungu

Unfortunately, I will have to make this short and fill it in later. By the time internet was restored last night I was too tired to do my blog. It is 5:20 now and I'm going to write what I can before I have to go.

Sunday evening, after I finished my blog I went to the hotel restaurant. It felt like an Agatha Christie movie because I recognized almost everyone in the restaurant as having been on the plane with me over here. One of the other diners was an English woman named Jan. She noticed this too and in a way that I wish I could have been so bold, she just came over and introduced herself because of that fact and we struck up a conversation. She worked teaching for a mission. She had told me that when she was in Accra they had proudly taken her to George W. Bush Highway.

Dinner was one of the best meals I have ever eaten. It was guinea fowl made in this Palava Sauce that was just incredible. It was also served with yams but they were more like white potatoes.

Coke and Nestle are EVERYWHERE here.

In the morning I had a millet porridge which was a bit tangy and was to be eaten with sugar so I took too cubes of sugar. On the side I was given Koosey which are doughy balls made from beans. Fantastic.

I was picked up at 9 and met several people in the office here including the Chief of Party (the equivalent of the CEO.) We had some meetings to talk about the database and discover a few new problems and then we had a staff meeting. Afterwards they took me to the teaching hospital and I got my Yellow Fever vaccine. They were very nice to me as they let me go to the front of the line because we were so rushed. The clinic where I was brought was filled with a lot of women. They seemed to be in groups of pregnant women over here, VERY pregnant women over there, women with tiny little babies over there and in the vaccine area were women with little babies.They were all so cute.

We came back to the office and waited and waited. I caught up on several things while I waited but I was impatient to get out in the field. Finally at around 2:30 we head out to Tolon-Kunbungu. The driving was terrifying, but I don't have time to describe that now. Eventually the number of cars around us decreased and then the paved road stopped. We drove for a long time past fields and scooters, goats, and anthills until we arrived. There was this small work area with a round building with a metal roof where they run this operation. We went inside and it was so dark that my eyes had to adjust. We were able to get done what we needed to, though and everyone was so very nice. Hands were shaken, pictures were taken (not only by me) and we came back. This was apparently the closes of the districts that we have to visit. So I need to get off of the blog and get ready because we are starting earlier today so that we can try to see more than one district.




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