Quick Overview

I will be leaving Friday, May 28, for a mini vacation with my family to Philadelphia. We are staying in the historic district and will be seeing as much as we can in a few days. On June 2 I will walk from our hotel to another hotel where my staging for the Peace Corps is. Here I will meet my fellow volunteers that will be going to Ghana with me. Staging will be a brief, yet an intense orientation to the Peace Corps and the general demands of being an effective and safe Volunteer.

The next day, June 3, I will be taking a bus from Philly to JFK airport. At 5:05 pm I will be saying goodbye to America and enjoy an 11 hour flight to Accra, Ghana. I will be landing in Accra on June 4 at 8:10 am, where I will be spending my first four days. After my four days are up I will begin Pre-Service Training in Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region. Training will consist of learning Ghanaian languages, culture and cross-cultural communication, and seminars on various topics related to my work, and personal health and safety. Training will last for ten weeks.

At the end of the ten weeks, on August 13, if I have successfully completed all of the training requiremnts, I will be sworn-in as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana