I actually feel accomplised...

So, I have been busy for the first time in like a month. We have begun to get our stay here figured out, which is the biggest not only relief, but it gives me so much to look forward to.
So to start where I left off Thursday was the same old. Meaning that the pregnant women came in, and we took their blood pressure and weight and gave them vitamins. So that wasn't all that productive, but meh.
Anyway Friday we went into Kumasi with Samwell and we bought fabric and stuff for our uniforms (they are light blue and really funny, most of you will laugh when you see them.) Samwell, who is like our stand in dad, is actually a contractor in his "spare time"-his real job consists of being an optetrician, and then giving speeches about AIDS and sex ed on campuses around the country. Yes, he is awesome and I love him. So we talked to him about our plan to build a room for the mentally handicapped girl we met in Boadasi (thats where the orientation camp is), and he offered to come scope the place out for us and get people to help us build it...ya I can't believe how lucky we are. I love Samwell.
Anyway, afterwards we went to a going away party for a nurse "Auntie Edna" who is moving to the Central Region with her husband, a priest who is being relocated. It was a really interesting time because they all dressed in traditional African dress, and sang and danced around. We were so awkward, in our Western dress and not to mention the fact that we are white...ya that whole thing.
Anyway, we went to the lake (Bosumtwe) Saturday morning which was a blast. Sanna and Stine, who are 10 hours away in Ho, even came with us. We rented out these bamboo huts right next to the water and got canoes (local canoes, which are planks of wood that are thicker in the middle and thin on the ends...) The whole town got a kick out of the 8 obrunis slipping and slidding and falling off these canoes. We then took a hike to a restaurant like 45 minutes away. The food was expensive and not the greatest, but it was worth it because on the way home we couldn't get a taxi and it was super dark so I broke off a branch, wrapped my underwear around the top and the doused it in oil. Everyone laughed at me except for Stine, but I got the last laugh because it kicked ass, and worked so we had light for a majority of the trip home. Too bad when it went out I fell onto some rocks and scraped up my leg. The next morning I woke up and saw all this dirt and fibers of my pants in it, so then I was smart and took a dirty pair of tweezers and got it out...I am lucky I don't have gangreene. Other than that though, it rocked not only because it was a cool place but because I got to prove my Mcgiver (sp?) qualities.
We came back to Kejetia on Sunday (in Kumasi) and Helene and I tried to find an internet cafe, too bad God hyjacks Ghana on Sundays. I was lucky to get a grilled plantane. Oh and by the way, those of you who don't eat plantanes ona regular basis are missing out. COCONUTS TOO. They sell them on the street and they hack them open for you with a machete so you can drink it, then they hack it open so you can eat the meat. Its awesome. According to Elisabet they are also "vitamin bombs" which is something I need because our cuisine is like rice, spaghetti, plantanes, kenkey, rice, rice, spaghetti, plantanes...I think you get the idea.
Today, which is Monday, we washed our clothes. Every cut I get on my hands never heels because we wash everthing by hand and it just rips them open. Not to mention the fact that I burn myself like every day when I'm cooking because the gas stove will not chill out, and the flame is enormous. However, its really not that bad and in college it will save me trips to the laundromat and money, so in the end I am winning.
Its awesome because in Ghana, at the end ofthe day, I can always figure out the way the glass is half full. Eli and I have extensive talks about this all the time. I find myself saying when there is a problem, "Okay, how can I solve this?" and if I can't, I just move forward. There is no one and nothing to hold me back here, and I am trying to stop doing it to myself.
Eli is fucking awesome. I am so lucky to have met her. We honestly just clicked so quickly. We talk about everything, and its so good to have her to go to if something goes wrote. Hopefully, we are going to travel to the North together for like a week, and she is probably gonna come along with me during my travelling weeks (2) at the end of my stay.
So after we washed clothes, we went to buy paint for the malnutrition clinic. It only cost like $5 a can, which means we can paint an entire room for somewhere around $30. And we thought we would be spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on this...its awesome because it gives us more leeway to be able to do more.
We found the soccer field in our town, and I am hoping to vamp it up. Level out the ground, make actual nets, build bleachers and a score board, and some real soccer balls.
Nothing like some manual labor!
Okay I think I have said enough for the day, and this keyboard is making my finger hurt.