Cue: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Road Trippin’
“Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It’s time to leave this town
It’s time to steal away
Let’s go get lost
Anywhere in the USA”
A few weeks ago, Isaac, Belinda and I were the only ones left in the office. 6pm on a Friday night. Not [...]
“Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies”
by Colleen on 18. Nov, 2009 in Ghana, friends, travel
“Maybe Tomorrow, I’ll find my way… back home”
by Colleen on 05. May, 2009 in friends
Cue: “Maybe Tomorrow” – Stereophonics
“Maybe Tomorrow, I’ll find my way… back home.”
This line is quite fitting for the day. In fact, in essence, epitomises it. There is a saying: “Everything happens for a reason.” Maybe it does. Right now, it sure doesn’t feel like it. Right now it feels like [...]
through another’s eyes
by Colleen on 04. Mar, 2009 in friends, uncategorized
While I love to write, so do many of my friends and many of my fellow volunteers. Occasionally, I stumble across something that one of them wrote that touches me, that resonates with what I am feeling and thinking at that moment in time, and that leaves me pensive and moved. The context may be [...]
Building Friendships
by Colleen on 18. Feb, 2009 in friends
(I have many photos to go along with this post, and I will add them in as soon as humanly possible. Patience please.)
After a few intense weeks of high level theory and M&E meetings, I decided it was time to get back out to the field. Yesterday, I spent the day with farmers, CU staff [...]