I have harboured a wish to experience Africa for over 20 years and I now have the opportunity to live and work in Ghana for 12months, as a volunteer with VSO. This is my journey and you are most welcome to 'virtually' join me.
Greeting the local Chiefs
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Farewell Manchester
This is my friend Jude aka 'techno girl' at work!
Okay so it is now January 18th, it has been several weeks since I last posted an update so maybe some of you are wondering what I have been up to? I had several injections at Cambridge Travel Clinic on Christmas Eve and was advised not to over do the alcohol consumption! So not wanting to tempt fate and make myself ill I had a very low key festive season. I enjoyed seeing the snow and couldn't help but muse on how different my experience would be next year. As well as my own family Christmas I somehow managed to gate crash the Griffiths family Christmas in Aldeburgh; what an experience that was :-) It was a bit like being an extra in a sitcom starring Dawn French, Maureen Lipman and Julie Walters (if the sisters are reading this I wonder if you can guess which is which??) Thank you for reminding me how wonderful you all are!
Right now I am now sat in Earth cafe in Manchester. I have spent the morning trying to sort out problems with syncing my mac and PC contacts so I can communicate with friends and family whilst I am away. My message to everyone is if you want to accelerate you ICT skills go travelling! Between skyping, blogging and setting up mobile e mail I feel quite the ICT nerd :-) My next challenge is to upload photos on to this blog ..... doh (can anyone out there advise me on this?) My new friend at the Apple store gave me a good tip which was to publish some photos on a public folder in my mobile me account. Apparently all you lot need is my email address (iglynn@mac.com). maybe you need to go to mobile me...? Let me know if it works but give me at least a week to learn how to upload the photos first! You may have noticed that my friend Jude (aka Judi aka 'techno girl') has managed to post a comment on this blog. For anyone who would like to send me some abuse you need to follow the instructions on the site to create a blog for yourself and use your login details to post a comment. BUT you need to preview before you press publish for the comment to appear (don't ask me why, but you just do) Good luck and let's see if we can get a bit of chat going on this blog ....
A little later in the afternoon ... still in Earth cafe! See new uploaded photos below x
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