warning: this may be painfully boring and hard to read (the space bar's not working)

well its been a week so i felt certian that someone would want to read an update on my life. haha, well you can always skip over this if you dont. this is mostly just me venting and not real interesting. consider yourself duely warned. last week marks the first time ive become truely frustrated and angry at ghanaian society as a whole. with 1 group assignment/paper, 2 days of voluteering, classes, and an 8 pg theology paper, i was actually legitimately busy. tuesday, i spent most of my day at the ministry of manpower interviewing someone at the child labor department for my social work class. it was pretty cool to get a small glimpse of the ghanaian government worker. i suppose it was also kind of sad. there are 2 women that work in the office--its grosely understaffed. the office is situated by a main highway and its pretty noisy bc the AC doesnt work, the windows have to be kept open. all the technology...comp, phone, fax, etc was all either donated by unicef or was purchased by the women there. anyway, i spent the rest of tues in class and then writing up a paper on the interview. wed, i went to the hospital. oh i should mention that someone in our group decided that since most of our american peers are celebrating spring break in march, that this week would be our unoffical spring break. in other words, we had a party at the house every night. so, wed, while everyone was out drinking and smoking on the porch, i sat inside and wrote my 8 pg theo paper. worst assigmnet of my life possibly. to quote the professor: "4 pgs typed (single spaced). due in 3 weeks. 'the weight of common sense, natural law, and scripture favors the death penalty.' expantiate." thats right, he said "expantiate." expantiate is not a word. i ended up getting so pissed off over this retardo assignment that i wrote 4 pgs (double spaced and that was a stretch) on how i thought religion/scripture was BS and contradictory and people just interpret it however they want based on their own opinion (natural law). whew. hope thats what he wanted... haha, i doubt it. the people here are extremely devout. so yea, thurs after my morning class i had to go to 4 internet cafes in order to be able to access the internet (out at the first cafe and went out at the second), word process (no probs there), and print (3rd cafe not printing). AHHHHHH! i ended up walking up all over the damn city for nothing. never did find a stapler. turned paper in without. of course, the only time im pissed out about the lack of reliable infrastructure/technology every f*ing ghanaian wants to be my friend and is running out on the street to be my friend/marry me/just should OBRUNI! ahhh! i was like, "i cant be your friend right now; im pissed off at your culture!" anyway, after i finally got the damn thing printed i went out and got real drunk. that seemed to make things better. met some ghanaian guys who give traditional and salsa dancing lessons for a living. quite the playboys it turns out. they bought me several rounds and took me dancing thurs. i ran into them again out on friday and saturday! friday i had 730 class and worked at the hosp again. came home around 3 to find my housemates had bought a grill and were bbqing and drinking themselves into a stupor on acct of it being st. pattys day. after lunch, we all took a nap and headed out to ryans irish pub, a rather odd establishment considering we are in ghana. however, they had free green beer. got real smashed again. i am irish, afterall. nothing too exiting happened though. unless you count me harvesting the nearby mango tree, peeling mangos with my teeth, and eating them all night. oh yea, also took shots of the nastiest gin ive ever had in my life and came in something that resembled a ketchup packet. this weekend i decided to stay in accra and just chillax (hehe, thats for you tegan). it was nice to not have anything to do for a change. ive mostly lazed around, but saturday night i made it out to alliance france to see a free concert by this malian group. best live music ive heard since coldplay. you all should check it out: habib koite. okay well, i think thats enough rambling for now. hopefully next week will be more exciting. ps. you all should email me sometimes. last week the only email i got was from myself...tear!