Statement of Purpose

I was talking to my brother Adam the other day, and he told me that a lot of people are asking where I am and what I'm doing. Let's see if I can answer those questions here, so you can all stop pestering my poor brother about it.

First off, where am I? Now this is a tough question, since it varies from day to day. Mus and I are living the nomadic life- staying with different friends and relatives and traveling around. So if you want to track my travels when I post a location on my blog, here are some useful maps:


This is a very basc map of Ghana (sorry it doesn't show more cities, but at this point, I'll take what I can get.) So far, most of my time has been spent in Accra and Cape Coast. The library project is for a little town between Cape Coast and Takoradi.


This is a map of the regions of Ghana- regions are kind of like states or provinces: the country is divided into smaller governmental units. So Cape Coast is in the Central Region, and Accra is in the Greater Accra Region. Mus and I also spent a lot of time in the Eastern Region, which is full of these large hills/small mountains (kind of like the Smokies in the US). It's also where Mus's parents come from, so we visited a lot of relatives there. That's where the cocoa farm is.

As for "what I'm doing here-" well, I'm essentially figuring out if I could live here and figuring out the next step in my life. Essentially, what that looks like from day to day is a lot of traveling, a lot of reading, and a lot of talking with people.

The better answer that makes me look more productive is that I'm helping with a library in Komenda, which is between Cape Coast and Takoradi. But there's not much to do until all the books I mailed come, and it takes a LONG time for them to get here. So I'm waiting on that project for the moment.

And for any of you waiting for my Christmas photos, my apologies. I've been trying to post them, but we seem to be having technical difficulties.