sorry I just reread that and it sounded like a proper rant. I'm not really that miserable! Good things are the lovely food - I could eat yam all day, mike is very brown and I am starting to get a little bit - the children still call me snow white though!, it was Ghanian Independence Day yesterday and we went and watched all of the children marching in a parade, Grandpa's little speeches which always make me laugh - yesterday he told a child that 100 years ago he would have sold her into the slave trade, some of the children are just lovely and now they've got used to us we can actually have good conversations with some of them - mike is reading Moby Dick with one boy every evening and I have started teaching another one the alphabet and trying to learn how to read. There is also the funniest little boy here ever, he constantly makes noise and loves climbing on mike and has the best laugh ever. He also has slightly manic eyes so I think in a few years he may stop being funny and be a bit scary but at the moment he is one of our favourites. Also two of the volunteers who are unfortunately leaving this weekend, Carla and Sophia have been brilliant. They love Volta Home a little bit more than us but they are both really fun and have made some parts of it a lot easier. Oh and Ghana are in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations today which should be good. If only we had some ice cold beers! We watched the semi final the other day (grandpa put the tv on the table in the garden and about 20 people sat around on benches to watch) and although I don't normally like football it was nice to do and I liked listening to the English accents on the commentary.
So some good things too, sorry if I sound a bit grumpy! xx
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