Final preparations and packing

Today is packing day. We leave for DFW tomorrow afternoon. We will spend the evening with some friends who will take us to the airport at 6am. From there we fly to New York and then straight to Accra, Ghana. Its an "overnight" flight, of course, so we won't get much sleep. We arrive at 8:20am on Monday and can look forward to a full day before resting. Fortunately we don't begin formal classes until Wednesday.

Here is a list of things we plan to accomplish, want to accomplish, have thot about, or been asked to do while we are there:

• teach the computer track for a 6-day teacher's workshop


• help Herbert, computer lab teacher, with whatever needs he has


• install a network traffic cache (Squid) to improve bandwidth efficiency


• deliver new headphones, splitters, mice, mouse pads, replacement parts, etc.


• hold a Saturday seminar for church leaders on the impact of Western technology and culture on the Ghanaian Church at the largest church in Accra


• visit a minister, who is a graduate student at HCC, and his family for three days


• speak at a multiple-church youth meeting


• preach(!?) for a small church at HCC


• visit the University of Cape Coast to investigate the possibility of teaching there for a year while on sabbatical


• plus the usual: visiting, talking, encouraging, and shopping at the market

This year packing is all about identification and recording. We plan to have written and photographic evidence for all items in all bags. Plus bags will be highly unique from the outside (thanks to artwork by Ayrea and Robert). Hopefully we won't have repeat of the lost bag problem from last year.