New post:
www.fluidinmotion.blogspot.com

New pictures:
www.imageevent.com/fumc_missions/lesley_in_ghana

Somebody should eat some leftover stuffing for me today.

Tom Hoffman is awesome. I now have a website to post Ghana pictures on. So, you now have a website to look at Ghana pictures on. And you can comment on the pictures, so tell me what think!

http://imageevent.com/fumc_missions/lesley_in_ghana

And, in other news, David Crowder is going to be in Tulsa on October 25th, and I definitely think you should all go on my behalf.

On her site, Sarah requested people to make a list of 10 good things that have happened to them since the last time she posted (May 27, 2005). So, in her honor, I submit to you my list (in no particular order):

1.   I was kissed by lots of Guatemalan children.
2.   I moved to Africa.
3.   I came the closest I have ever been to completing a crossword puzzle in People.
4.   I sang "Happy Birthday" as a round.
5.   I  danced in African church, twice.
6.   I made friends with a German man who gave me little packages of cheese and salt as early Christmas gifts.
7.   I survived organizing "Seven States in Seven Days."
8.   I won the "who has the biggest head at the San Francisco Salvation Army" contest - physical size, not ego.
9.   I made friends with David Crowder.
10. I watched the sun rise with the most beautiful girls in the world on the most expensive plot of land in Tulsa.

(For a completely different post, check out the other site. Variety is the spice of life.)

I posted again on my blogspot (www.fluidinmotion.blogspot.com) and this is my attempt to get people to go there. It just seems more artistic and fun than this one. And you can comment even if you aren't registered with them. So, come by and see me, and leave me a note.

Just in case that wasn't convincing enough, my latest post has a picture of beer on it...

So, I wrote this post on blogspot - but I can't decide which to use. That one is more fun, this one is more accessible to all of you. For today, I will do both...

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Welcome to Ghana.

Last night I decided to head to my room for the night. I got there, went to open my luggage, and realized that you can't open luggage that is tied shut with plastic ties when your pocket knife is in your luggage. I roamed around the darkened house looking for assistance for about 10 minutes before resigning myself to defeat and going to bed in dirty clothes. I suppose I didn't even need the airline to lose my luggage for me...

In other news, my body is reinforcing the existence of jet lag.

Roasted plantains are absolutely wonderful.
Ghanaian chocolate is not.

The chocolate tastes like the air smells. For those of you who have not smelled the air in Accra, it is not too wretched, but certainly not fragrant. I think, though, that the situation sounds a little more lovely when I say that the air smells like chocolate.