Wednesday and Thursday

The horror! And just like that, my hair was gone. Tonight (Thursday) I got a haircut. I wasn’t planning on it. We were at an internet café and we walked next door into a salon and Dr. Addae suggested I get it cut. I’d been talking about it for a bit, but still… I was nervous, given that 99.99% of people here are essentially bald. I’m serious—apart from people with dreadlocks, everyone has no hair. I told the guy to keep it long, but long by Ghanaian standards is the number 2 guard. My hair hasn’t been this short since grade 10. I’m devastated.

I’ll live. On the non-hair front, not much has happened of note the past two days. I’ve been working on more schedules for the school and proposals for the water project. Today we met with some people about the newspaper, so things are starting to come together. Tomorrow we’re going back to the printing press to get the cost estimates and set up a meeting for next week with all of the people we want to involve. It’s still early days, but things are starting to crystallize. We’re thinking the paper will be published once a week and will be 12 pages long.

I’ve been reading a lot of Goldhagen’s “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.” He makes a very strong case and has some damning evidence. Today I read a part where he quoted a German memo that instructed men not to pack cattle too tightly into rail cars because it might hurt the food supply. Apparently no one at the time found that disturbingly ironic.

Nothing much else. I’ll try to send Dylan some pictures to post next week. We might be going to Accra on Sunday, but that’s looking doubtful because we haven’t heard anything about it for a week. Have a great weekend…