The Team is Assembled & We're Getting Ready to Go

I can not believe that it was only a year ago that I was starting to get ready to head to Ghana for the first trip. It seems almost surreal that I'm fortunate enough to go back again this year for an even longer trip!

The team we've assembled is bigger this year, with five faculty, eight students, and couple of interns. It is going to be an amazing trip with some really great projects. We still aren't 100% sure where we will all be staying but rumor has it that we'll be in the same place as last year (students in a new place though) and that the Internet connections are a bit stronger so I should be able to keep up-to-date easier. I'm also taking my MAC this year so should not have the same virus issues as I did at the end of last year's trip.

A couple of changes in the overall trip this year - first it looks like we might get to do a home-stay within one of our project communities (too cool!!!) and my mom's going to join me for the final 3 weeks of trip. I'm going to be sticking around after the others head back to Canada in order to scout out and set up a field school for next... Yup that means I'm possibly going back again NEXT year! I love my job. Below are a couple of pics that I didn't share last year... you'll see why I really love my job!

Stay tuned as I'll up-date our preparation for departure. We'll head to Vancouver on the 25th of April and onto Accra Ghana on the 26th - what a great birthday that will be.