alright, i got lucky again with the internet so here's another email...
i found out where i'm gonna be stationed. its a village called sankpala, about thirteen kilometers southwest of tamale in the northern savannah region of ghana. its made of the dagombe tribes, so i'll be learning dagbani and gonja but i think dagbani is the main one. anyways, i have my own house all to myself with a new latrine and a store room outside. the house is two rooms, with no running water or electricity, but solar power so i can still charge things. but i also have a donkey stable and a chicken coop that are in excellent shape 'cause i'm replacing another pcv who had just built them. so odds are i have two donkeys and something like twenty chickens waiting for me as well!! i'm already planning on founding the 9th royal northern region donkey cavalry regiment. i think i can find enough ghanains to ride my soon-to-be bred to perfection donkeys into battle. trickriders, if you will. anyways, i also have a garden and a wall that's being built (i guess i have to finish that myself when i get there...).
most of the cooler people in our training group are headed up to the north lands with me, which is always a good thing - we're in bolga-tanga right now, which is one of the larger cities (about the size of clare). its hotter up here (100's) but not as humid, which is i guess in a sense better. this region is also the malaria capital of the entire world, northern ghana. how sweet is that. the land itself is more scenic too - mountains to the south of us and were flanked by grasslands and shade trees. my assignment, from what i've learned, is to work on erradicating the guinea worm epidemic that is plaguing the northen lands. it seems that these worms, which are about as skinny as spaghetti, can grow up three feet long within the human body before busting out of someone....just like in 'alien.' so i'll be teaching sanitation and water treatment, since the worms thrive in bad water. that being my primary project, my secondary projects can be really whatever i want them to be....i'll let you guys know what happens from there...
so yeah, i just thought i'd update you on the recent developments. hope everything's still good back in the homeland, i'll talk to you guys later...stay outta trouble...
col. brian joseph hough
9th royal donkey cavalry regiment, northern region
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