The volta region

Accra:
Hello and welcome back. Lots of stuff happened since my last post that unfortunately, partly due to my laziness and partly due to the poor internet connection, went undocumented.

First, the duty: I am overjoyed to inform you that the ministry noted my presence. Now I am officially part of several teams to design the reform of the education system.
Last week I attended a workshop with the chief director of the ministry and people from World Bank, DfID, JICA, UNICEF, and most importantly free lunch.
And this week I have the pleasure of assisting Mr Rakotomalala, a number cruncher (ehm... consultant) from the world bank who besides being an extremely nice guy, is also designing the financial model to cost the education reform and teaching me a lot.

Second, the leisure: The pictures you see below come from the Volta region, where allegedly the biggest artificial lake is. We had day trip to the Wli falls two weeks ago, which consisted of a five hour bus ride, 4 hour treck, 30 min chill and back, which I enjoyed but could have been better planned And a much more relaxing boat trip on the lake last week, leaving from the Akosombo dam.

Lastly: while all seems to work well, the bank lost the money I wired to myself over here. Pain in the ass! It will get here eventually, but in the meanwhile my father had to send me some through western union.