Update from a few days ago-love that Ghanaian internet :)

Well I wrote this e-mail days ago but it wouldn't send until today. Here is an update:

So I had started writing an update and then the internet shut off. I will try again.

I am sorry that I haven't written and I don't know why I haven't felt like writing. I think maybe it is just that I don't know what to write to express myself and this might be the first time that has ever happened to me. I am so happy and so frustrated. I have my moments when I am really down but I try and stay positive. I am finding it hard that my time here is so short. I already have a know in my stomach about leaving. I know that some of you are thinking but you will get to be back there in January and it is only six months but these kids are a part of me. They are like another limb that I can't function without. I have found my passion and they are it. Thinking of spending six months away from them is really difficult.

Last week they boys finally started to talk about Victor's death with me. Up until then they hadn't wanted to talk about it but all of a sudden they just couldn't stop talking about it. They were telling me about how two days before his death he randomly decided to make tea and bread for his closest friends and they stayed up talking until late in the night. They said that he had wanted to go to church the Sunday before he died but he wasn't feeling well. That would have been the first time going to church in years. They said that his death was so unexpeceted, he hadn't even been feeling that sick and then one day they came home from school and he was dead. They told me about how they couldn't sleep in the house for over a week after he died and how none of them wanted to eat. I told them about how I couldn't get out of bed for days after I heard about it and how I couldn't eat either. It was good to talk to them about him but it was hard. I find myself missing him more and more each day I am here without him.

Last night the power went off and I went the whole night without a fan. I woke up this morning and I had sweat completely through my clothes.

I love that sometimes I am eating things I don't know. There is this place where I get rice with this orange chinese sauce and it has meat in it but I have no idea what the meat is. I know that rat and cat is very popular in Ghana and so I just don't check to see what it is.

I have been eating Mangos everyday and loving it!! I go back by the boys house and knock one of the tree to eat.

The boys have been cooking me meals occasionally and I LOVE WHEN THE COOK FOR ME. They are amazing cooks.

No one tells their real age in Ghana, they all say that they are 4 years younger than they actually are.