Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am off this morning to go and practice before the music department program at 10:30. The group of german students will be drumming and dancing, and the university brass band and a few other groups will perform as well.

Last night I saw a Ghanaian political show on TV...They were discussing some of the issues here in Ghana. A major concern is poverty and especially the huge split between the rich and the poor. The figures they gave were: the top 10% of the population make 40% of the income while the bottom 40% make only 7% of the income.

That would seem to make sense from my observations. There are some very big homes close to where I am staying, and I have seen a lot of very nice cars driving around and parked in the hotel parking lot - and yet there are many people here that do not have much at all...

I must confess I had many ideas about what Arica would be like; now that I am here I realize many of our conceptions of Africa are wrong...or at least a little off base.

That is all for now.

Cheers,

Patrick