Feeling hot hot hot

It's day 11 of my Ghana experience and I have just looked at the picture of sister's garden covered in snow wishing that I could romp around in it and cool off .. just for a little minute!  Don't get me wrong I love the heat and generally I prefer it to cold and most definitely I prefer it to Lancashire's cold and wet! But, give me a wee break I am sweating like I have never sweated.  Thankfully, as some of you will have heard from my e-mails, we had our first tropical rainstorm here the other evening and it was awesome, truly awesome and the humidity levels have dropped at least for now.  I am not used to warm rain in bucket loads. My friend Jacky had to be evacuated from her room as it flooded and soaked her clothes and even damaged some electrical equipment. I was only next door but managed to miss all the crazy shenanigans of the rescue as I was fast asleep :-)  We were watching several men trying to mend the roof in the middle of the heat of the day - using a blow torch, it was quite unbelievable.  I have taken my first journey on the tro tro (photos to come) which was a bit of a baptism of fire, literally. It took me an hour to pick up the courage to engage in the scramble to get on one of these vehicles - an Aussie scrum is lightweight in comparison. Once squeezed in you share your sweat with all those around you, it just pours down your face, legs arms .. it really isn't a pleasant feeling.  People tell me I will get used to it .. watch this space. I will try and upload a photo of my colleagues that started work here with me - a real mixed and lovely bunch of people from every continent.  I know its pretty mis back in the UK right now and I am not missing that but as a friend here says.. I wish I could just turn the sun down a little bit.  Keep in touch