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		<title>Singing To Myself &#8211; Goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last blog post (at least written from Ghana, perhaps I’ll write one more once on the ground in Canada to talk about what‘re-integration’ feels like).  Thanks to all of you who have read, commented on, questioned, thought, or felt anything from my writing.  I leave Kpandai in a few days, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=126&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Update on my Situation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few things have changed in my life here in Kpandai that I want to send a quick update on. My work is starting to come to a close.  AAB is rolling forward in Kpandai – all the AEAs have been trained, I’ve been going to the field with most of them, and the majority [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=121&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Being A Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have now been in Ghana for three months.  I haven’t really talked about gender yet, so I thought perhaps it warranted a post. During pre-departure and in-country training, we talked about gender A LOT.  I had discussions with past volunteers and listened to stories and situations that I knew I’d find myself in.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=119&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tidbits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-          Little pieces of my experiences and thoughts that don’t seem to fit into any one post.  Purely for enjoyment, no hidden meaning. - Tip When inside your room &#8211; Don’t Look Up You won’t sleep well for a few days. Laundry I’m bent over three buckets.  My back and knees are aching, my hands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=114&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Is Poverty&#8230;And What Can/Should I Do About It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought after spending a few months in Ghana I&#8217;d be able to define poverty in a neat little sentence.  I thought when I got off the airplane, it&#8217;d smack me neatly in the face.  I thought I&#8217;d be able to answer the questions that had been nagging at me the weeks leading up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=108&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Values and ‘Development’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: This is guaranteed to be a sticky post.  I thoroughly encourage some healthy debate and discussion.  Additionally, it is all over the place because I&#8217;m not quite sure what the point is I&#8217;m trying to get across.  Enjoy “We don’t grow millet here.  Our ancestors banned millet as a sacrifice to the gods.”  It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=103&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in My Ghanaian Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being bombarded with requests (from one person), I am here to write you about what a typical day here in Ghana looks like for me.  Enjoy, for I plan to get descriptive. 5am &#8211; 6:15am &#8211; Rise and Shine! Waking up occurs around the 4th or 5th rooster crow.  I never sleep later than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=97&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Reality Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me if I’ve experienced ‘culture shock’.  My answer has typically been ‘no’.  I suppose I expected life to be different, and thus didn’t have too much trouble adjusting to those differences.  I’ll write another time about cultural differences and how some differences have actually been weighing down on me.  For now, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=86&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Poor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some would say it’s a random, bold, self-explanatory, and rather packed question that a Canadian would ask a Ghanaian living in the North. I was sitting with a few members of my host family – Jessica, Lazarus, and Miriam.  We were watching Brother Joefere play a game of football on a Saturday afternoon.  The sun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=80&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Life</title>
		<link>http://sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/family-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully if I paint a picture of my life at home, it’ll be easier for you to understand what a typical day for me in Kpandai might look like. I live with the chief of Kpandai’s family &#8211; his name is Nana Atorsah.  It’s quite average compared to all the other homes around Kpandai (capital).  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sarahsgonetoghana.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12892800&amp;post=70&amp;subd=sarahsgonetoghana&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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