An American in Africa

I just took some Ambien and it's setting in so forgive me

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:43:18 GMT

I'm opening this up to people who have been watching my journey through this journal.

If you want a 7.25 by 12 padded envelope sent from me in Ghana to you in whereever, now's your chance.

PM me on LJ or eMail me (arii.su @ gmail,com) your address and I will send you a small package of whatever small item I feel you deserve

You can't ask for anything -- that would ruin the fun.

Enjoy what's coming :D

Return to Ghana / Retour au Ghana / ガナの帰り

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:55:09 GMT

Here are my flights in July:

Day	Date	Flight	Status	Class	City	Time	Cabin	Arrive	Time
Fri	11JUL	DELTA 6196	OK	COACH	NASHVILLE	1129A	7A	NYC-KENNEDY	259P
Fri	11JUL	DELTA 166	OK	COACH	NYC-KENNEDY	505P	21A	ACCRA	820P (Sat)
Fri	01AUG	DELTA 167	OK	COACH	ACCRA	1015A	21A	NYC-KENNEDY	520P
Fri	01AUG	DELTA 5507	OK	COACH	NYC-KENNEDY	800P	2D	NASHVILLE	959P

Voici mes vols dans juli:

Jour	Date	Vol	Statut	Classe	Ville	Heure	Siège	Ville	Heure
ven	11JULI	DELTA 6196	OK	ÉCO	NASHVILLE	11h29	7A	NYC-KENNEDY	14h59
ven	11JULI	DELTA 166	OK	ÉCO	NYC-KENNEDY	17h05	21A	ACCRA	8h20 (sam)
ven	01AOÛT	DELTA 167	OK	ÉCO	ACCRA	10h15	21A	NYC-KENNEDY	17h20
ven	01AOÛT	DELTA 5507	OK	ÉCO	NYC-KENNEDY	20h00	2D	NASHVILLE	21h59

このチャートは私の七月のフライトです:

曜日	日付	フライト	ステータス	クラス	市	時刻	席	市	時刻
金	１１七月	DELTA 6196	OK	エコノミー	ナシュビール	１１時２９分	７A	NYC-ケネディ	１４時５９分
金	１１七月	DELTA 166	OK	エコノミー	NYC-ケネディ	１７時０５分	２１A	アックラ	８時２０分（土）
金	０１八月	DELTA 167	OK	エコノミー	アックラ	１０時１５分	２１A	NYC-ケネディ	１７時２０分
金	０１八月	DELTA 5507	OK	エコノミー	NYC-ケネディ	２０時	２D	ナシュベール	２１時５９分

Neighbours and Reunification Day / Voisins et la Jour de Réunification Ghanéen / 隣とガナのリユンイッフケーションの日

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:53:11 GMT

This will surprise you: I'm not dead.
Vous allez être pris au dépourvu: je ne suis pas morte.
読者はびっくりになるので、あたしは死んでいらない。

Grace and Lisbeth / Grace et Lisbeth / グレースとリスベット

Mabel / メーベル

Grace and Mabel / Grace et Mabel / グレースとメーベル

Lisbeth and Grace / Lisbeth et Grace / リスベットとグレース

Grace and Lisbeth / Grace et Lisbeth / グレースとリスベット

Ghanaian Reunification Day bonfire / feu de joie pour la jour de réunification ghanéen / ガナのリユンイッフケーションの日の焚き火

Church / Église / 教会

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:30:09 GMT

School and Cedi Bead Factory / École et usile des perles Cedi / 学校とシーヂの粒の町工場

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:41:54 GMT

Juliet / ジュリエット

Elikphim / エリックフィッム

Cats at Cedi Bead Factory / Chats à l'usine des perles Cedi / シーヂの粒の町工場の猫

Cedi beads / les perles de Cedi / シーヂの粒

The school's benefit website can be found at http://www.thevoltaschool.org

If you have Facebook and would like to receive updates faster than they're posted on the webpage, the Facebook group is here.

School / École / 小学校

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:05:55 GMT

Dede and Beatrice / Dede et Béatrice / デデとベアトリッス

Dora / ドラ

Bernice / バーニッス

Sarah, Bene and Sammy / Sarah, Bené et Sammy / サラとベネとサッミ

Maxwell / マックスウェル

Ben, Mansa and Bene / Ben, Mansa et Bené / ベンとマンサとベネ

Mansa and Juliet / Mansa et Juliet / マンサとジュリエット

Mansa and Bene / Mansa et Bené / マンサとベネ

Advent Calendar

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:57:26 GMT

I've made an Advent Calendar that will introduce the kids over the month of Advent. Sixty kids, three a day for twenty days with five days of special topics. If you'd like to meet the kids one-on-one, please add the calendar to your bookmarks. It can be accessed from the main page of The Volta School for the Mentally Challenged.

School, Wli and ostriches / Écoli, Wli et autruches / 学校、ブリーと駝鳥

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:17:57 GMT

Hohoe / Hohoé / ホホエ

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:41:34 GMT

Sarah and Dorcas / Sarah et Dorcas / サラとドールカス

Sarah and Dorcas / Sarah et Dorcas / サラとドールカス

Dorcas /ドールカス

Dorcas /ドールカス

Important announcement

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:51:42 GMT

I received a note on Facebook today from a woman saying that there has been a person parading around with my passport on Yahoo claiming that she's stuck in West Africa and needs money to get back to the United States. The woman's story, as told to me by the woman on Facebook (aka in awkward message to message chunks):

Really......arent you the women who has been stranded in West Africa for the last 4 months. Dont you need money to get home and you cant pay the hotel bill. You own a medicine shop!

interesting. There is someone posing has you on yahoo. allisonharper85@yahoo.com. Using your photo and your location. Also has your photo on a passport. She claims she is stranded in West Africa and has bit hitting on men to send her money.

Well then we have a problem. Someone last night was chatting with me. Was trying to get me to send them money to pay thier hotel bill in West Africa. That they went over to meet their boyfriend. Send me this passport as proof they werent lying

She claims she dated a man here for 2yrs. He was from Nigeria. She left the usa 4months ago to be with him. The first night she spent with him at her hotel she woke up in the morning and found him gone and he had robbed her. The hotel took her return trip ticket. But funny they have let her stay in the hotel for over 4months w/o being paid but they will not let her leave until she pays the bill. She is even posing as you on a dating sight.

I'll keep you all updated, but I know that you all know that I'm safe and sound back in the United States. I'm back in class, back to working on 501(c)(3) papers for the school, had a fabulous and very safe time (because I wasn't an idiot walking around Togo at night), and really my only bad travel incidents happened once I got back in America (in the news lately about Delta employees working as smugglers at JFK? Yeah, that got in the way of my flight home)!

Fun stuff though, eh?

I promise I'll post more pictures tomorrow. By the way, for anyone interested, the website for the school is here. If you have Facebook and want to join a group benefiting the school, the group is here.

And lastly, if you feel like pestering faux me, her YIM address is allisonharper85. Tschüß!

Church / Église / 教会

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:52:05 GMT

Neighbours / Voisons / 隣

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:48:32 GMT

Mabel / メーベル

Dorcas / ドルカッス

Dorcas and Elise / ドルカッスとエリス

Dorcas / ドルカッス

School / École / 小学校

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:20:19 GMT

Sorry for the time without a post -- there was a death in my family.
Je suis désolée pour le temps sans post -- il y avait une mort dans ma famille.
凝滞があったので、残念でありますー私の家族の中に、死がありました。

Sammy, Lawrence / サミーとロレンス

Muwinyo / ムウィニョ

Dede / デデ

Ben / ベン

Dede, Elise, Kafui / デデ、エリスとカフイ

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:08:06 GMT

Anthony, Kafui, Muwinyo and Maxwell
アントニー、カフイ、ムウィニョとマクスウェル

Chantel and Juliet
サンテールとジュリエット

Kpando / パンド

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:17:31 GMT

Kpando Potters / Les potiers de Kpando / パンドの陶工

The Grotto at Kpando Agbenoxoe / La grotte à Kpando Agbenoxoe / パンドアグベノチョエの洞

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:01:42 GMT

School / École / 小学校

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:29:38 GMT

Dede uses my extra battery pack as a mobile / Dede a utilisé ma batterie de rechange pour faire comme si elle téléphonait / デデは私の余分の電池として携帯する。

(clockwise from top/ dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre, à partir d'en haut) Nelly CZAJKOWSKI, Nathaniel, Dede (Dédé), Daniel, Juliet, Maxwell, Senyo / (上下右巻き) ネリー、ナタノル、デデ、ダニェル、ジュリエット、マクスウェル、セニョ

School / École / 小学校

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:46:19 GMT

(clockwise from top/ dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre, à partir d'en haut) Nelly CZAJKOWSKI, Kofitse, Daniel, Sammy, Maxwell / (上下右巻き) ネリー、コフィテ、ダニェル、サミー、マクスウェル

Ewoenam, Daniel, Juliet / エイヲエナッム、ダニェル、ジュリエット

Mansa, Sammy / マンサ、サミー

Likpe Todome / Likpé Todoumé / リックペー＊トドメー

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:30:26 GMT

Information about Likpe Todome / Information dans le sujet de Likpé Todoumé / リックペー＊トドメーの街頭事項

Hohoe / Hohoé / ホホエー

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:01:08 GMT

Market / Marché / 市場

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:29:57 GMT

School and Wli / École et Wli / 学校とブリー

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:44:20 GMT

Daniel / ダニェル

Teacher's baby / Le bébé de prof / 先生の赤ちゃん

(clockwise from top/ dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre, à partir d'en haut) Charles, Maxwell, Senyo, Juliet / (上下右巻き) チャルス、マクスウェル、セニョ、ジュリエット

Dogbeda / ドーグベダ

Wli Waterfalls / Les cascades de Wli / ブリーの滝

School / École / 小学校

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:23:41 GMT

Daniel - ダニェル

(clockwise from top / dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre, à partir d'en haut) Nathaniel, Senyo, Max, Sammy, Lawrence, Maxwell, Salase / (上下右巻き) ナタノル、セニョ、マクス、サミー、ラレンス、マクスウェル、サラセ

Market day / Jour du marché

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:36:40 GMT

Sunday in Hohoe / Dimanche dans Hohoé

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:21:35 GMT