The Kos Blog

The Kos Blog
Hi again
We're back from the summer and hopefully I'll devote more effort to making this blog thing work. The weather's unseasonably cool and dry; so much so, in fact, that they've called for a series of blackouts to happen regularly to make up for the low water levels at the hydro electric dams in Volta. sigh.
Oh yeah - the baby
Sadie was born on April 17th 2006. she was almost six pounds, and scored a 10/10 on that test they do at birth. Sherrie gave birth with no complications (she laughs when I tell her how easy it was) and our family of five is now doing quite well. Sadie seems to be enjoying her stay in Africa.
Family of six! We got a new puppy - her name's ZiZi (the name came from a book of Amy's and the fact that the dog's mom is named ZaZa) she's half lab half sheppard, but looks like a lab. very cool.

Our Friends

This segment is dedicated to some of the wonderful people we know here.

They're in no particular order, and the list is far from complete. We have done so much with so many wonderful people, but I'm struggling with very few photos at this point. (my camera was stolen a few months ago)

Angela and Mike Murray and their son, Mason:

Fellow Canadians, from Saskatchewan, lived in Switzerland and Pakistan too. We spent much time with them in our first months in Ghana, as we all had so much in common (except Euchre!) The girls absolutely adore Mason. I regret that I dont have a single shot of their family - sorry.
Gillian and Kwadwo and Amy:

That's Gillian on the right and Amy on the left. Gillian teaches drama in the middle school, Amy in the primary school, and Kwadwo (pronounced Kwayjo) is a full time painter and Gillian's man. They're our close neighbours too. Amy's handsome husband is Kujo, seen below, and the little baby's name is Selly, he's their son. So cute!



























Amber and Johnny:
These two met during the first week at school and haven't looked back. They're moving in together and are often found talking about the future. Amy and Erin love it when Amber pops in.

Chrissy and Ebby:
moved to Australia now, but what fun folks! We'll never forget you guys!

Matt and Micheline and Malisse:
Great friends, super helpful while we were getting settled. They were our mentors! Malisse is Amy's contemporary, and they do swimming lessons together. Thanks for lending us your car over the Christmas holidays! (that's Amber standing with Micheline) Once again, I don't have many photos in my computer right now (camera got snatched) so I'm doing the best I can here.

The Paulsons:
Rieber, Annie Hall-Paulson and their cute boy, Casey

Rob:
junior, opie, you know... Yet another Canadian teacher.

Bird flu is in Nigeria, probably here too. Sherrie and the girls will be leaving on March 12 for Canada. I have very mixed feelings about that. I'm glad that they're going somewhere safer (we have chickens walking around on the street here, and our girls get really dirty on the ground when they're playing in the yard) but I'm going to miss them tremendously. It's tricky. The same thing happened when Sherrie was leaving HK to have Erin, but with SARS. Funny how things repeat like that.
We're going to be buying a car soon, but I'm waiting to hear from some staff who are leaving - that's the best deal in my opinion.
What we do for fun:
On weekends, we often go to a pool at one of the hotels. Many Obronis (whiteys) do that here. Some of our favourites are the Golden Tulip and La Palm Royale. Here's a photo:


We've been to a very nice beach resort called Anomabo as well.
The beach is pretty good, and the food is very good.
The rooms are nice, air conditioned, and simple. When you're there you can just chill on the beach or sit in the restaurant,
or go up the coast to the castles or jungle walk, etc. Here are some more photos:



Isn't the one of Erin a blast? she actually fell asleep while sitting at the table eating dinner!

February 24 2006
Hi there.

First of all, this is a clean simple blog. No porn, no politics, no religion, no extreme views. Just a way for me to communicate about us to the folks at home. If you're looking for any of the above things, you can go away now.
If you're a friend of our family, please feel free to read on!

So here we are in Ghana, living in Accra. Quite a change from Hong Kong. The weather's lovely, the job is pretty good and the people are very nice. We still don't have a car, but I've finally been looking.
That's me with a soldier. soldiers are used at big soccer games to keep it peaceful. A while ago (I think it was in October) I went with a few others to the World Cup qualifier for Ghana in Kumasi. What an experience! I'm glad our team won. An absolutely huge crowd (easily over twenty thousand, maybe forty) started partying hard all over the place after the game. it was a huge mob of dancers, like a huge happy riot! I still think of how horrible it would have been had Ghana lost....