MONDAY

What better way to start the morning then with a bowl of off brand ramen noodles. I had bought curry flavor last week and it tastes amazing with a slice of the laughing cow cheese mixed in. Not your typical breakfast but it was good enough for me; I paired my noodles with some VIA and dried milk … a fine breakfast if I may say so myself.

Today I spend some time in the office. I had to bring in the ornament patterns into the office so I could find one of the seamstresses to make up some samples for us. The internet was obviously not working so there wasn’t much for me to be doing in the office. I talked to Dorkus (she is in charge of all the patterns and is head of the Quality Control group. I asked her if she would think of a woman who would be best for the job and ask her to come in so I could show her what we want done.
Two loafs of bread later … The woman finally came to the office. I sat down with her and tried to explain what I wanted out of the pattern. Even though the women speak English there is still a large language barrier which makes hard for communication. The instructions for the softies/orniments were straight forward and I’m surprised I had as many problems as I did. It makes me nervous for the garment and how hard they will be to explain to the women. Since the meeting with my friend didn’t go that great I’m going to head over to her house on Tuesday and watch her while she makes the samples. This way we can fix the problems right away.

Once I had my meeting with my friend I spent the rest of the day at the house working on patterning more garments that we were given the okay on. I think I’m much more productive when I’m at the house. I finished off the garment that Katie and I had been working on last Friday.

We had another dinner date with the West Point crew tonight at Eli’s. Palava was being served which i’m always happy about. Palava is crazy delicious, might be my favorite meal in Ghana. Tonight I saved my hardboiled egg to make an egg salad sandwich out of tomorrow.
I forgot (I’m not sure how) to mention about my mosquito bite situation. When we were at the Stumble Inn on Friday night we all accumulated mass amounts of mosquito (at least I think they’re mosquito bites) all over my feet and legs. I couldn’t tell you how many because I loose count every time I try. Sarah counted one of her feet which I think she was at 140 bites. I have around the same amount if not more as she does and have been in agony ever since Saturday night when they started itching. Nothings has seemed to work but tonight Katie gave me a Benadryl to take so hopefully that will at least knocks me out and I won’t wake up in the middle of the night trying to rip my feet off.