Africa: I Am Still Alive

We have just about reached the halfway point of our adventure here in Ghana.  We're leaving Dafor on Wednesday the 28th, after which we'll be back in Accra with real beds and showers and more frequent access to the internet.  We'll be working the the kids in the slums around the convent of the Missionaries of Charity for a few days and hopefully spending some time with the orphans and AIDS patients that they care for as well.
I had intended to write a longer post than this, but my hour in this internet cafe has slipped away so quickly!  I can only say that I am quite well, though not everyone in our little group can say the same.  One of the girls went to the hospital with malaria yesterday, and there are two other people significantly under the weather.  Everything is ok now, but we are reaching a point when everyone is tired from working so hard every day.  We're not used to having to drink so much during the day, because we don't realize how much we're sweating until we feel the symptoms of dehydration.  Please don't worry; we are all ok, and those who need it have been resting.  We're drinking more and eating lots of bananas and eggs to keep our energy up.  We will all probably be much improved once we reach Accra, where our work is no longer manual labor, there is very low risk of malaria, the food is more substantial, and the accomidations much more comfortable. 
The church is looking good; we finally started laying concrete the other day, so the loads we've been toting are much heavier and the men are completely worn out from mixing cement with shovels.  We probably won't finish the floor, but the foundation we have laid is strong and ready for the next mission trip next summer.  So far we have had to:
- dig trenches for the sleeper walls
- tote sand from various places about the village for concrete
- mix concrete
- fill said trenches with concrete
- make bricks
- lay bricks in trenches
- tote dirt
- fill the spaces created by sleeper walls with dirt
- tote water
- throw water on dirt
- tamp down dirt to make level surface
- mix concrete
- pour concrete onto dirt
And we are doing all this by hand.  It is really insane.  And it looks like we barely did anything. 
Ok, one minute left.  ciao ciao!