The internship wheels never stop turning

In another sneaky move, my internship has changed again. At about 11:30 the night before I was going to go to internship #2, one of my roomates got a text message telling her to tell me that I was actually doing something else. Something else ended up being working for the Alliance for African Women Initiative - Ghana (AFAWIGH, probably the worst acronym ever.) There, they do things like build toilet facilities in schools in the Northern half of Ghana, along with starting teen clubs were they can talk about sexuality and things like that, and doing research related to those things. That's cool, right? They put me to work on day one filling out an application for an ungodly amount of money from the UN Development Fund for Women. You can check out just how over my head I am here - http://www.unifem.org/partnerships/fund_for_gender_equality/application_guidelines.php

They aren't really doing anything too related to what the fund is asking for, I don't have a clue what to write, and best of all, they went with my idea of what to do in the proposal. Which was training women from underserved communities in Ghana to be sexual health teachers, thus enabling the young women to stay in school and thus be more successful later. It seemed sort of related to what they'd already done, now I just have to phrase it in a way to make the UN give us $100,000 or so. I am so not qualified, although their previous reports were filled with crimes against grammar, so maybe I won't be so bad.

Also tonight I got to go play with the Brass ensemble at the University of Ghana - Legon. It's all music students, but they haven't been playing the instruments for long, so it doesn't exactly sound good but we can get through the music. Mostly chorale type stuff and the University Anthem, which is rousing and kind of fun. I played the bass line in the chorales and was easily the best player, but it's still enjoyable and a good way to make sure I keep playing. Much of what we played was written in Ghana and used hemiola frequently, so that was a challenge at least.

Friday I get to go suck at my internship more, and then this weekend we're going to the Central region on the coast, where we will visit old castles built by Europeans, slave forts, some sort of large festival, and a jungle. Pictures will be forthcoming.

(Also I can't make this unbold, and I'm not sure why. Tough)