When I step into St. Peter’s Catholic Church every Sunday, I am ready for the Celebration! The drums, dancing, and singing help make for a very loud, lively, and long Mass. That is why I knew my fellow parishioners would take the celebration to a-whole-nother level at Easter. They did not disappoint. The Easter celebration […]
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“Last year, no students signed up to study agriculture in high school; today, 40% of our students stated their intention to do so. They did not believe Americans were farmers until Kelsey moved to this village. When they learned that she came from a family of farmers in America, it gave our students permission to […]
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As I sit under the shade of the neem tree, drinking from my bag of porridge, I can’t help but reflect on this wonderful day. It all started this morning as I was walking past the Form 1A classroom, headed for the office to write lesson notes for next week. I hear, “Madam, we have […]
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It was 12:35pm on a Saturday. I stood in front of an almost empty classroom. A meeting had been scheduled for noon that day. I had expected about 15 students to show up, so we could discuss their personal square-meter gardens and I could happily give them the onion and tomato seeds I had brought […]
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A congregation of 4-H members were eagerly leading and following me through the small dirt trails of my new village, when I asked them to stop for a second. I stepped toward a group of small children about twenty feet away happily playing under a tree, just to say hello and acknowledge them. As soon […]
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For as long as I can remember, my parents have been doing business at Interbank. When my dad told me I had to get an after-school job in high school, I applied and was hired as a part-time teller at our local Interbank branch. I remember loving this job because of the wonderful staff I […]
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When I walked up to him and approached the area where the school garden would be, I got a great sense of anxiety when I looked at the large jungle like area in front of me. There was Mr. Phillip with 11 JHS students standing in front of the same jungle of a garden plot […]
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In my blog about the Top Ten Things I’ve Learned in Ghana, I mentioned the fact that it takes a long time to get the ball rolling and how frustrating that can be. After spending five months in Ghana, that fact still remains true but I am happy to report that little by little I […]
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It felt like I was back in my old classroom watching my Ag Government students persuade their fellow legislators to pass their bill. Or when Jason finally understood how to properly fill the energy levels of chromium to achieve the correct electron configuration. It felt like the time when I watched the four members of […]
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In the hustle and bustle of the tro tro station I felt a young man gently grab my arm. At first I brushed it off because at the same time another person was trying to help me find the tro that would get me to my destination. The young man reached again and this time […]
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