I spent much of this past week wishing I had a larger bum because I discovered that no amount of squirming or shifting can make a wooden bench comfortable for 2 or 3 or 4 hours. Luckily all the sitting payed off because on Friday, Joanna and I finished all of our surveys! It felt great to have finally made it through all 120 surveys after so many delays. While I am glad to have all my data, I am sad that my days will now be filled with data analysis and not clinic visiting--staring at a computer screen just isn't as fun as being surrounded by adorable babies all day. I am hoping my data yields some interesting findings but who knows; a number of the infants were underweight and I am wondering if there will be any correlations between that and the other variables I looked at...
Other than that there is not a whole lot to report. Ashley's boyfriend is coming to visit for the week and I think it will be entertaining to see another American's perspective on Ghana and our lifestyle in general. Our weekend has been pretty slow. Friday night we stayed in and watched a movie which was nice and relaxing. Yesterday morning Ashley left for Ouagadougou to pick up her boyfriend so April and I were left to own devices. It was market day so we went into town and wandered through market buying all fabric and food and all sorts of things. We now have no money...guess we will have to get to Bolga at some point this week to exchange some more cash. After a lunch at Perseverance we came back and spent allllll afternoon being studious and working on our respective projects. We rewarded ourselves with a yummy dinner (tuna and spaghetti followed by a pineapple we bought at market). This morning we were supposed to go to church with Joanna but my stomach apparently had other plans. Well that is all to report for now--not sure what this week will end up being like with a visitor here but we shall see...
