Week of Oct 2 This past week was a pretty fulfilling week of teaching with the students. It was my last week of teaching the senior class...

I had two great experiences this past weekend! The first was a tour of Elmina Castle. It was built in 1482 by the Portuguese originally...

Week of Sept 26-30 Mondays are such fulfilling days. I start my week by going to have a private drum lesson with Antoinette. This week...

Highlights for the week of September 19 Thursday night I got to speak to the class that I am supposed to be taking as a student. It’s a...

Sept 16-18 This weekend I got to take a trip to Kumasi with my colleagues and friends Eric and Medina and their spouses, Harriet and...

This has felt like a normal week. I have a routine. There are some things I really like and some things that are not my favorite. My...

So I’ve had the opportunity to go to one of the days of the Oguaa Fetu Afahye Festival (people say “A-fa-shay”). This is a week-long...

It was another week of ups and downs. It started with a couple of amazing experiences. I had my first private lesson on drums with...

So last week (starting on Aug 22) we started classes, for the most part. It felt very chaotic to me because I thought we were starting on...

Saturday I was in my first performance with DrumGhana! There was a final celebration for the 40th anniversary of the Twerammpon...

I have gone to all of DrumGhana’s practices this week which were Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. And we have a performance...

This also happened this past week. After practice on Monday evening, Antoinette invited me to go to a concert that was being held at Cape...

Friday August 26 This week has been filled with lots of experiences again! I went to my first drum Ghana drumming practice with...

Friday morning, August 19 Wow, yesterday was a roller coaster. After I lounged around in my hotel room for a bit, I texted Michelle and...

Thursday morning August 18 Yesterday was a great day! John and I left Cape Coast at 3:30am to come to Accra. The goal of today was to...

Wednesday morning August 17 Monday I got to go to the first music faculty meeting of the year and meet my colleagues! That was pretty...

This is a bit out of order due to the way I took notes, so bear with me. Sunday morning Aug 14 Well I woke up this morning and my power...

I have gone into the office every day this week for probably about four hours each day. I really enjoy it. It allows me to get out of my...

Today I went to Cape Coast Castle which is one of the main castles where Africans brought other Africans to sell to Europeans to take to...

My days go between very exciting outings and boredom/anxiety while sitting at home by myself. Yesterday was probably the highlight of my...