Preparing for our trip

We leave for Ghana on the 30th of June, and I thought I'd create this blog as, perhaps, a more reliable way (than individual email) to entertain everyone with my travel stories once we get there. We'll be arriving in Accra on the evening of July 1st, and we'll be on the University of Ghana at Legon campus for the first 10 days, before we go to Koforidua, where Jefferson's sister lives. At Legon we'll be staying in a student dorm; a wonderful senior professor in the linguistics department made the arrangements for us. It's $14 a day, and is furnished, but it's more like a dorm than a hotel; no sheets, towels, etc. During the first few days there we'll probably spend time shopping for pots and utensils and things like that (yay! shopping!), and then I'm hoping to spend a week meeting the linguistics faculty and graduate students, and looking through their library, if I can.

But today is the 8th of June, and we still have a lot of preparations to make. I want to get a new pair of glasses, and we both need to pick up our malaria medication. I also want to do a lot of background research on Akan/Twi, and to get back in the habit of practicing speaking Twi. We also have to get the apartment ready for Gaetanelle, a visiting scholar in the Stanford lx department who will live here for the summer and keep an eye on our rascally little kitty.

Once we get to Ghana, we'll be on the go; never in the same place for more than three weeks. So, snail mail will be hard if not impossible, but hopefully email will be available, intermittently. Based on using email in China, my main email account while in Ghana will be:
ya4ping2@yahoo.com (Jefferson can be reached at jefferson_deanza@yahoo.com)

So check back when you can, especially after July 1st!