Wednesday, July 19, 2006


This is Tanesha and I at La Yahoushua School, where ASAP donated many books and supplies. Here we are presenting the books to Theodora, the schoolmistress. She was amazing, even going to the bookstore with us to pick out what she thought would be best.



The children at the school danced for us, and there was much to celebrate!












Here is a classroom at the school...not too shabby!


















This student wrote and recited a poem for us called "My Book"

It was very moving and also quite hilarious. We encountered many of these mixed emotions on the trip. Do you laugh? Do you cry? Do you give up? Do you set new goals....(yes!)









This is Tanesha (Miami) and Kenneth (from NYU study abroad) at La Yahoushua having a great time watching the dancing, singing, and poetry.
Almost the end of the summer! Guess its time to put up some pictures from the trip to Ghana - which was amazing and I only wish everyone could have been there with Tanesha and I.

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This picture is from Mole National Park...yes we were THAT close to the elephants.

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Our guide had a gun, just in case the elephant charged, and i thought it would look like one of those ads against killing elephants for ivory if the gun was in front. It almost turned out as planned...

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Green monkeys, babboons, pumba...all running amok

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Chare village

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Toys

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more elephants!!! just to make things interesting

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Gail with someone from Chare.

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KIDS!

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The head guy at Sunta Nunnta...wearing a smock that is very traditional garb for the North. This was an agricultural commune, which also had a pre-school that I completely fell in love with. It has alot of potential....

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Thats all for now, more to come!