camp is over

so now that our week of planned orientation activities, or kids camp, has ended, it's starting to feel more like i'm actually here to study, and not just at a 'learn about africa' camp for a week. orientation was very strange, but the past two days have felt a lot better for a lot of reasons. my stomach is finally settling down and getting used to the food change, which is a big plus. We've also started taking classes, so I can start deciding what it is exactly that i'm taking this semester. I can only take 4-5 classes for credit, but I'd love to audit several others because the lectures seem so engaging, but I can't handle doing that much extra work for the actual course. So far I've attended 5 classes in just the first two days, mostly at the NYU center. I attended the traditional medicine course at ashesi that i was really excited about today, but the professor is new/ different and i'm not sure how i feel about it, so we'll see. a lot of the other courses seem fun, but i have to decide which ones i'm taking for credit, so i'll write more about classes another time. i take my first class at the University of Ghana tomorrow morning, and then there's a durbar for the international students in the afternoon, so that should be fun. since we don't have much work yet, and finally actually have some free time, we've also started going out at night, and that has been fun, because it's a different opportunity to meet people in the program. last night we just went out to be out of the house again, but tonight was the first birthday for someone in the program (next week we have 3!!!) so we had a little celebration with cake and then dancing. so it was fun to relax a bit, and now that we can really go out and explore on our own it's starting to actually feel like i'm going to really be here for a semester. the only other thing that's coming up is figuring out where i'll be doing my community service, but I still have to talk to the guy coordinating that, but i'm really excited about that. (I even practiced my trumpet for a bit tonight to warm up, because another girl brought a flute, so we were making a little noise. for those of you I hadn't talked to about this, I brought a trumpet to maybe do some sort of music lesson/ class thing at one of the schools, but i'll explain more about how i work that out after i actually work out the details!!) so that seems to be it for now. check back on thursday, because tomorrow is reggae night at the beach after the durbar, so I don't think i'll have time to update. and don't forget to keep me posted on what is going on in everybody else's lives- like i want to know how everyone else's semesters are going....or will be going.