Happy Holidays from Ghana

Merry Christmas friends and family, and almost a happy new year! I hope you are finding time this holiday to rest and reflect and enjoy the company of good friends and family. I am currently sweating buckets and somewhat jealous that you have the option (likely) to step outside for a moment and breathe in the minus degrees celcius weather. Take a deep breath for me, and if you really are up for it, you could make a snow angel for me too. We have said good-bye to our village families and are now together for 2 weeks of travelling around to see the wonderful country of Ghana. We hiked some mountains in the jungle the last two days, and now we're having a nice culture shock into one of the busiest cities in the country, Kumasi. Tomorrow we will take another long journey down to Cape Coast and spend the new years there. We are all doing very well. I got a few christmas gifts this year, some chocolate, a cd, some underwear (thanks mom), oh yeah and a low-grade of malaria. But it's okay, after spending christmas night with a fever, chills, headache, and basically wanting to crawl in a hole and die, the malarial treatment fixed me up in time to climb a mountain. I am fully recovered, and feel good to go!

Thank you to everyone who has been updating me on life at home. Please send me what you've been up to, i'd love to hear! Our next journey will be another village stay with cocoa farmers, so i will try to update then.

I love you all and miss you all!! Merry Christmas xoxoxoxoxoxox