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Well dear readers (the few faithful readers that remain after my loooonng absence), I must ask for forgiveness once again... I seem to have disappeared! I have tried several times to sit down and formulate thoughts or give the effort to put up just a few pictures, but I just haven't had it in me. I have had a desire to write, but just couldn't seem to muster up the words. And still, I really want to write about so many things... about my recent trip to Spain, about the orphan that my roommates and I took care of, my feelings about school and Ghana and coming home, and just life in general. Once again, I feel myself being resistant to this and I just can't quite do it... SO I decided that some pictures of the last 3 months would be better than NOTHING... so without further ado... I present... 2008 so far in a nutshell! Enjoy!!

Walking to the stadium for the opening ceremony and first game of the Cup of African Nations (CAN 2008)... I wasn't prepared to go this day, hence my very Ghanaian, non matching style :)

Waiting for the opening ceremony to start... we were a litttlllleee early... try 2 hours! SOOO hot!

Opening game! Ghana vs. Guinea, which of course, we won :)

Video is of the crowd singing in unison... it was SO loud, but an awesome experience!!

Standing in front of our hut in Ada, the place we stayed is on the beach between where the river and ocean meet up... so beautiful!! AND how perfect is it that Amanda and I got the door painted as the Spanish flag :)

On the canoe on our way out of Ada... there is no road to Maranatha (the place we stayed at), so you have to walk on the beach or take a canoe to get there!

Happy Birthday to me! Amanda took me out for sushi, and I ended up being a very cheap date ;) - they gave me my dinner free, plus this AWESOME sushi roll, almost all of the things in it were firsts for me to try!! It was GOOOOODDD!!

They even carved Happy B-Day into a cucumber and put a candle in it :)

Playing pool at a surprise party for some surprise friends, Ahmad and Sophy, an Egyptian couple living here in Accra! (oh ya, and by the way... meet Meg! She is the one in the center, she is our new roommate as of January... we love Meg!!)

And this precious thing is Gifty. Gifty is a 2 month old orphan from Beacon House, the orphanage that Amanda, Meg, and I go to every week to play with the kids. Gifty's mom could not take care of her due to mental illness, so on a trip up to the North one of the local missionaries brought her down. Because there are several other babies at the orphanage right now, it was very tiring for the house "mom" to get any sleep. My roommates and I volunteered to be foster mom's for the weekend and LOVED every second of it... Gifty is the sweetest baby you will ever meet... so easy to take care of and love!! This was definitely not an experience I will ever forget, nor would I trade it for the world!!!!!

After this comes Spain... but there is no way I could choose 3 or 4 pictures for this post, so I think that Spain will have to wait for another day when I feel like typing more, and for now, I will just link the albums where you can see all of the Spain pic's posted on Facebook:
Album 1:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2041697&l=3e9d5&id=141300005
Album 2:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2041700&l=b9914&id=141300005
Album 3:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2041702&l=2ef2a&id=141300005