This past week, I was out in the field again. It was good to get out of Accra, good to walk in the fields, a good reminder of what I still have to learn. It was also a good reminder of what you can learn when you branch out a bit and slow down. With [...]
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Technology and Choices
There is a phenomenon called “reverse culture shock.” It occurs when you move from one culture back to one you are more familiar with, only to be surprised by how you and the world around you has changed. For the most part, coming home this time was amazingly easy. However, 2 things continued to surprise [...]
Cambridge Graduation
Graduating from a university that is 800 years old is no trivial affair. (University of Cambridge) The pomp and circumstance has been perfected over centuries. The are respected and admirable individuals in whose footsteps to follow. There are traditions and protocols to observe. Dressed conservatively with billowing robes and hood, walking down the cobbled streets [...]
Happy New Year
New Years Eve is always one of those occasions that I find anticlimactic. There is so much anticipation for the space of a second that marks the difference between one year and the next. In some ways, this year is no different, but in many ways it was completely different. It stuck me, as I [...]
African Wedding
In my last post I made reference to a wedding ceremony I recently attended. I think it is worth briefly describing. It makes me feel as though I have been immediately included in the social life of my new family. Brenda and Tears were organizing the wedding, and as their new guest and ‘sister’ there [...]
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