October Greetings from Ghana

Things are great here in Ghana. I've been busy, busy with Rotary. I gave a presentation last night at a Rotoract club and another one Tues. night at a Rotary Club. The Rotoract club was great. I met alot of young people there and exchanged contact info with quite a few of them with plans to get together soon. Actually some of them gave me aride home last night and we spent the whole car ride talking and gettingto know each other, great people.

I met a women at the Rotary meeting on Tuesday who has an NGO that works to rehabilitate ex-inmates and she gave me info about her org. and talked to me about helping her out. Seems interesting.

The University is not so great as far as classes go. I really don't feel challenged by the course work and the lectures are very monotonous. I've been spending some of my extra free-time studying for the LSAT for law school. I also plan to spend some of this extra time working on Rotary projects and things like the inmate program. I've started working on Joyce's Lockart's book program trying to organize a shipment of 3 containers full of books to Accra. I mentioned the program to the Rotoract club last night in my presentation and the President indicated that the club would be interested in helping

Last weekend we made a quick day trip to a wildlife park. We saw and fed baboons and hiked into a bat cave to view all of the nesting fruit bats. It was a beautiful park! This weekend I'm traveling with some friends tothe western region to attend a soccer game, view some old colonial slavecastles, and hopefully see some crocodiles on a river tour. I'll postpictures next week when I get back. Speaking of which I have a new blogpost or two at destinationspot.blogspot.com and more pics. up on my flickrpage.Anyways it's getting hot in the internet cafe (my shirt is literally soaked through with sweat) and I have to get to class. I have my Politics and Governance in Ghana class in 30 mins. or so - by far my favorite class! And it's very enlightening given the fact that this year is an election year.