Ghana Calls Me Also

Hello Everyone,

I know I have been absent a few weeks, I do apologize. I think the time to recover from Ghana mentally took much longer than I thought. Included in this delay were a few classic problems I had retrieving some documents that were in Ghana. (I cannot escape it!) Besides these now mute details, I do sincerely apologize for having you all wait, as I know many have wanted to see my final reflections and photos from my trip.

I still am digesting the impact of my experiences. Ghana, as any world travel, has once again changed and inspired me. I feel like a different person as I interact with friends and family, even almost a month later. It is so different than before left. The way I regard issues and my priorities has changed. With this trip and some events following I have begun to see what incredible potential lies ahead if I only take my steps wisely and work for it.

Ghana continues to blossom. As learned, it is projected that Ghana’s national GDP will more than double after the newly found resource of oil is harvested. In ten, five or even three years I am sure Accra’s development will astound me and I look forward to the next time I am privileged to visit.

There is not stopping now, I think I have an incessant bug to explore, learn, read and travel. And how the gift to grasp opportunity fills my eyes and heart every day. I am so lucky and blessed to be an American, and to be born into the life that I live in. My art is again placed in this country and quite literally do I feel spiritually part of me is also connected there. That mural will bring my family and my friends to encounter the journey traveling to Ghana provides.

It is incredible, what will and could possibly birth from this work and from my research. Ghana is certainly a part of my future. Though I have only traveled as a young adult to this country I know beyond all others it that fact will remain. I have a million buzzing ideas that I can visualize as possible whirling through my head. Each day a new fruit from its pile I am working to see in my everyday life. One step at a time, one day at a time, I progress confidently.

Thank you all, thank you all, thank you all for being there for me and appreciating this experience! I am truly honored, flattered and moved by all of your emails and comments. Enjoy the photos is the link posted just here:

http://s1004.photobucket.com/albums/af164/shelbe1288/Ghana%202009/Ghana%20Trip%202009/?albumview=slideshow&track=share_email_album_view_click

May God bless you.
Love Always,

-Shelley

P.S.- There is so much more I wish to write, and I will. Keep my blog in mind every now and then ;) Thank you.