All quite on the home front

So things are going ok I have been integrating into the community meeting with various groups and having fun cooking for myself. Don't have much to report other than I am fine and healthy enjoying this cool weather from the rainy season. I will try to go to the hippo sanctuary so I can get some more good photos up for all to view. So until next time peace love and all that good stuff :)

Austin

Off to site I go

So I am now a volunteer and will be at my site for three months getting settled in figuring out what projects my town wants to do. I am excited about cooking for myself for once and having some freedoms to do home improvement projects. I am well and healthy so far I have not really had any thing bad like worms or such things. It is kind of sad that now all of us who have been together for the past three months are going our separate ways. It will be all the more worth it when we get together over the next two years. So I hope everyone is well and I look forward to any letters and postcards that come my way.

Peace

Swearing in

Me and my host family

The Environment Sector

My language group

My house and some cool rock

Almost there

So I feel like it has been a while since my last update and a lot of stuff has happened. Well first of all I am fine, safe and healthy. So I just back from site visit where I was able to see my site and visit with my community. My site is nice it is a compound that I share with a pastor and his family. There is still some painting and other things that need to be finished but it is a nice pace to call home for the next two years. The pastor is nice he was really glad to meet me and wants me to come to church with him which is good. My community is very warming and glad to have me their. I am excited about the projects that I will be able to do with them and working with the school to possibly teach some social studies. So training is coming to a close and this week I will take my test proving that I had learned something during these three months. Then next week I will swear in and become a real peace corps volunteer. I can't wait it is so exciting to finally get working instead of just talking about doing stuff. I got some newspaper articles from home about Sanford wow how crazy is that I mean it sucks to him but I am sure you all know the details so no need to talk about that. I wish all well and just know that I am making a difference in Ghana in more ways than one by constantly talking to Ghanaians about America and helping them to understand that the US is not what Hollywood makes it out to be now only if all Americans could understand this fact. So I hope that all is well and everybody has a job. I will try to get more pictures up but sometimes it just doesn't work so well but I should be able to get them up soon.

more pics

Obama

So much to my surprise we were all bused down to see Obama as he left Ghana. I am glad to have had the opportunity to have two United States Presidents speak before me. The first George W. Bush when I graduated from Furman and now Barak Obama while I am serving in Ghana. John Atta Mills spoke first and then Obama followed acknowledging Peace Corps three times the first time we made so much noise that he had to pause for us and apparently I was on TV so I have heard. I did not get close enough to shake his hand but I was pretty close only five people from the front. I just love the fact that I had this fortune and shall remember it for the rest of my life. It was also a great way to mark the halfway of training giving a nice break from classes. The ride was long but well worth it I got some good pictures and meet some of my neighboring volunteers that I will have at site. I only can assure myself that this event marks the first of many great things that will happen during the next two years. I hope that some of you watched on c-span and said hey there is Austin. Until the next time Peace Love and all of that Good Stuff

Austin