Epic Travel Blog FAIL

Okay, so I've been back from Ghana since July 26th....and I look at what I accomplished with my blog for the 3 months that I was there...and let's just say it didn't turn out the way I'd hoped.  The internet was impossible to access in the village and when we were finally in town, the internet cafe's internet never seemed to work.  Siiiigh....oh well, so is life.  Anyways, to conclude on this section of my blog, I'd like to say the trip was epic. I don't have time, after the fact, to write down all my stories on this thing but I imagine I'll be telling them to friends and family for a while yet.  It was one of the coolest things I've ever done!

So...what's next?

Only time will tell.  I'm graduating from university in December and who knows where I'll end up after that.  The world is my playground....I don't doubt there will be adventures ahead (and who knows, maybe I'll be better at blogging them next time)!

Until next time,

Kira :)

The Final Countdown

Alright...so the travel blog has officially begun!  For the first time in my life, I got to be selfish and choose my own destination to travel to (with some influence of available field schools).  It has always been my dream to go to somewhere completely different, somewhere warm, and somewhere far away from my Canadian homeland. Therefore, my next destination is Ghana, Africa! The countdown has begun: T - minus 24 days.

Some of you may not know or understand what I will be doing in Ghana, so I will do my best to explain it here (This is for you, Grandma F!).  So, the first 3.5 weeks involves doing University coursework.  The first week of May, we come up with group research projects.  Once we arrive, we carry out those research projects and then we complete a written paper once we get home again.  Our research involves studying either the Mona Monkeys or Black and White Colobus Monkeys at the Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary (BFMS). Here's a picture of each:

After the 3.5 weeks, my fellow students will leave BFMS and continue their travels elsewhere.  I will be staying at the sanctuary and helping a PhD student with preliminary research for a project that she's working on for about 2 months following the field school.  It sounds kind of boring but I'll be sure to post lots of pictures to give you guys a better idea of Ghana.  Anyways...that's the general outline!!!! Happy Travels!