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About Us
- Cameron and Kymberly Tuckfield
- Kym and I are leaving for West Africa this August. We will be spending 27 months as Peace Corps Volunteers.
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Our top 10 books read thus far.....
- Dark Star Safari
- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Love in the time of cholera
- East of Eden
- A Cival Action
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Harry Potter Series
- River Town
- You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train
- Ishmael
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Gaviotas
- Oriental Mythology
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Dead Lucky
- My Sister's Keeper
- Septembers in Shiraz
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Predator
- Big Bad Wolf
- Ana Korinina
- My Sister's Keeper
- Twilight
- Marley and Me
- For One More Day
- Joys of Motherhood
- Running with Scissors
- Eat, Pray, Love
- She's Come Undone
- Wake up, sir
- The Man Who Ate Everything
- American Pastoral
- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- The Rule of Four
- In Cold Blood
cheese or cheesy???
our neighbor Aseea
living/kitchen/ect
on the porch
oh crap!!!!!
"splish splash"
inside our compound
Blog Archive
Cameron, me and Alhassan...he loves us, even if you can't tell by his face!
Our new smocks from our friends in Karaga
Patience and Valeria...so going to miss them!
Cameron and our neighbors (Generation is on Cam's right...the coolest man EVER!)
Kym and the teachers
Our sending-off party
After it was painted...it looks so nice!
See-saw
Putting the merry-go-round in the ground
Me and Ganni...our future artist
Our donkey cart!
Matin and Iddrisu bringing in the merry-go-round on the NEW cart
Our two new donkeys (a boy and a girl!)
We're gonna miss this place...so beautiful
Sunset in Karaga
The polyclinic is finished!
Storm rolling in
Helping the older class
Cameron teaching tic-tac-toe
Cheese
Timtooni Community School
Mr Karim was in hog-heaven!
Kym teaching the teachers
The teachers love the new materials as much as the students
Learning to use dry erase markers
The students LOVED the Obama stickers!
Showing the new teaching materials
The girl at the bottom is Adisa, but I call her Trouble (the name says it all!)
Just the boys
Another fun day at school
Stadium at night
Ghana vs. America
Vamos Brasil
Matching Jerseys
couple of regular snake charmers
Zulu Wariors
Gooooooal!!!
Stadium at sunset
Go Tigers!!!
What a beautiful pitch
getting game ready
We hand over the keys the 1st week of July
Looking good
Patient room at the new clinic
Measuring volume of water at the dam
Treating Ponds for Guinea Worm
Almost Done
Boarders are a nice touch
Vanna White, I'd like to buy a country
We also painted a Ghana Map
Kym's class Geogrifies
Friends at Sparkles
Happy Birthday Andy
Celebrating Andy's birthday
Our students who just received health insurance....woohoo!
Ah...run from Pumba!
Maria and Kimmie...so cute!
The oldest mosque in Ghana
Lagoon at Keta
Just doing what the sign told us to do
Fishermen at work
Peace Corps Prom...what a night!
Cam took Ana to prom...getting so excited for the WORLD CUP!
and Andy took me....apple bottom jeans!
Cam was the limbo champ....I'm so proud!
Prom ended in the pool but this was taken before we jumped in. We were THAT sweaty....so gross!!!
Kym's Kids at the Center
Child suffering from Marasmus
We Just bought this cool painting
Picture Perfect
The March
Made you look
Fire Bragade?
Still life "lemo"
launch of National "Wash with soap campain"
"Where's the feet?"
School's out
you got a little something right...there
Thanksgiving fun
Green Turtle Sunset
Thanks for the Visit Mom!!!!
Cape Coast Castle
Typical Fishing Community
Cape Coast
Canopy at Kakum
Me & Mom
Monestary over-look
Resting under a tree
Future hallway
Building styrofoam walls
Pouring concrete
Hard work in the middle of the day
A typical compound in the village
Village women doing a guinea worm case search
Building walls
The polyclinic
A mom at the nutrition center
A book of colors and their matching fruits
Looking at her new book...she didn't want to share it!
Matching the mom to the baby
Some kids reading a story...too cute!
The WHOLE school
A new mom with one of her three infants
Our new teaching materials!!
Some photos of kids at the clinic
Village kids in the Volta
Out on the lake
Sunset with Maria and Andy
The gash, after the crash
The boat
All the boys.....where's Maria and Caitlin?
CHEESE...what a cutie!
this one was posted by Kym...who thinks Cam is WAY HOT!!!
Adam and Andy....what?!?!
Swim to me Sandy!
Lions and elephants
Low risk, no risk or high risk....what do you think?
Lake Volta
Narrow Bridges
Playing in the lake....Maria and Sandy
Kymberly and Valeria
she was born on valentine's day
We make fire big
Campfire S'mores
Homeward bound
...and getting caught in the rain!
Harvesting Groundnuts (Peanuts)
Cabin in the Woods?
What the Polyclinc should look like
So much "Dam" Laundry
Tamale Market
Peace Corps Bride
Traditional Wedding Dances
Andy and Maria are gettin' down!
Ridin' in a tro, ridin' in a tro....
Dance PARTYYYY!
Too funny!
Ana, Cat, and Kym.....such AWESOME ladies!
Aren't we cute...okay, sweaty and HOT!
Some of our favorite people in Ghana
Where's Waldo? Can you see Andy?:)
Too cute....
Village Women at Andy's HIV and AIDS drama
Beginnings of the new Polyclinic.....Cameron is in construction heaven in Karaga!
Don't jump....which she almost did!
Hanging in the hammock
Doing the laundry with our little helper
Sulo and Zakaria
Village clean up
School kids helping to clean
Greeting the Chief
Sunset in Karaga
"Small boys" in the bush
Yes, it really is RAVIOLI
Waiting for the storm
Coloring while it was raining
Reading by candlelight
Sulo and Cameron's "jam" session
They LOVE having their photo taken!
Just hanging out one afternoon
Candi and Aseea
Cameron's moringa farm
Us in a CRAZY storm
Remember the slip-n-slide?
Rainy day smiles
Sillaminga feet
BLOCKS
Don't EAT the chalk!
It's soooo cold
look at my sexy laundry
it's almost complete
wash...wash...wash your hands
Kym's Kids
A Guinea worm that was taken out of a woman's knee....eek!
It's almost complete and just in time for the rain to come!
Fixing the dam....
What do you think about our wedding atire?:)
Our students Alhassan and Zanab
Checking out a wall built for protection
Hangin' with the kids at the watering hole
Cameron with the cows and crocodiles
The boys at the spot
Riding in the tro....
How cute are they?
Kymberly, Aseea, and Sulo
A "top" notch tro ride
Down to the swimming hole
How do I look?
Kym pounding Fufu for our lunch
It's a funny hat right?
A weaver working at his loom
Indigo dye process
Kym, Catherine, and Me
River Crossing
it takes a village to raise a dam
children love to play with the white man
what beat?????
shaking it for the locals
we must keep the soil packed
we fill the hole by the bucket full
let the construction begin
when the levy breaks
the last of the water
late january
The older class learning rhyms
Kym's preschool
Curious Kym
Awwww Freak Out
Future Tuckfields?????
Our Graduation Group
Ghanaian Sunset
Smile if you want to go to site!!!
What waterfall?
Cameron of the Jungle
Nice Tail
Monkeys got a little too close
Kymberly's day at the beach
3 comments:
This is fantastic! Can't wait to hear more exciting news! Keep us posted! LOVE YOU!
I am SO excited for the two of you!!! I love the blog. You will have to post some fun pictures of your exciting adventures. Miss you around here and can't wait to read the updates! Love you!!!
I love the new blog!
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