life is normal.

several of you have been commenting lately that i need to post more often.  i know i do.  i just don't have a whole lot to say.  to me, life here is normal.  at this point, it is hard to me to remember the things about ghana that would seem exotic to you in america.  i just sat here for several minutes and could not even come up with a good topic to write about.  

so, if you can come up with some ideas of things you would like to know about, please tell me.  sometimes my internet connection is difficult (especially now starting the rainy season...), but i'll do my best to keep up with my blog.  

i'll try sometime to upload pictures and post some of my most recent art project with my lower primary kids (first to fourth grades).  

we took empty toilet paper rolls, pieces of cardboard, scraps of cloth, yarn, and markers and made fertility dolls.  it was really fun, because i felt like this was a rare project that actually allowed them to be creative.  so often the children here are afraid to be creative.  if i show them an example of the project we are working on, they all want to copy that example exactly.  if i don't show an example, it is often difficult for me to communicate to them what it is we are working on.  so it's a tricky situation.  but this time, i did show two examples.  one, an actual fertility doll (a wood carving that is traditional here), and the other, a simple one i made.  and then i just let the kids make a mess.  and they made some really fun dolls!  

so, i will work on taking some pictures with the kids and their dolls and let you see them.  

until then, let me know what i should be writing about!