I will pick up my neglected blog!

Yes I am aware it has been much too long since my last post.

These days I have been working on making my garden, with compost and NO BURNING. I have a decent sized portion of land. I am going to plant as many different things as possible but so far I have the seeds for watermelon, green pepper, carrot, lettuce, tomatos, and cucumbers. I planted some avocados from the core of the ones I ate. I also planted garlic which apparently is just planting the cloves basal plate down. Clearing land with a cutlass is extremely hard. It makes you arm and waist sore, and creates blisters on your palm at the base of the index and pinky fingers. Seasoned farmers here have very hard hands, and they would like to discourage me from continuing weeding. But I would like to continue to prove to them that I wont break. Its been fun to show people my blisters anyway because they are so surprised. My neighbor told me I wasn't allowed to go weed again and that he and some other guys would weed for me. I told him okay sure they could come weed but I would continue because I need my farm to be done. They never came.

Lately my little sister, the 7 year old one, has been doing everything with me like a little sidekick. School was out of session so she has been around during the day. She actually just went back to school this week. Every morning while I made my breakfast she would come and watch what I was doing. Eventually she wanted to help and I made her wash her hands before and she learned the whole routine of me cooking my breakfast. Also she would come with me any time I went to fetch water and she would carry my bucket. One night I thought that since everyone here has such outie belly buttons it would be amusing to show her mine which is an extreme inny. When I showed her she said “ohh sorry” and reassured me that mine would come. I sure hope not!

One more random thought - lots of people in Ghana try to finish your sentences with you while you are talking when you are speaking english. It is not something I like about this place.