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

Books

Here is the list of books that I am packing with me and will be reading in Ghana . If you feel there is a book that I should read then please mail it to me. I will gladly read it and give you my thoughts on it.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
Miracles by C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
The Worlds Greatest Speeches edited by Lewis Copeland
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Southern Storm: Shermans March to the Sea by Noah Andre Trudeau
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood
Napoleon: Man of War Man of Peace by Timothy Wilson Smith
Worthy Opponents: Sherman and Johnston by Edward G Longacre
The White Tecumseh by Stanley P. Hirshon