Tuesday, 29 September 2009  Updates and photos from the
GapBreakers in Peru  Update and photos by our in-country agent
in Peru  I had my weekly meeting with the volunteers again
today. Everything is still going smoothly at the school and the
general health of everyone seems to be good (no one in the
clinic). They are travelling to Lake Titicaca this weekend.
Swedru; an eye-opening experience  Written by Caitlin Stamford -
GapBreak Ghana, 2009  I have arrived in Agona Swedru, so just a
quick recap on the rest of our orientation in Accra. We have now
finished our orientation, which was really good. We had a day of
African drumming and dancing (I failed at dancing, the teacher
kept singling me out because I was so bad).  Then we talked to
our in-country agent about cultural issues and what our host
families will expect and what they will be like. There are lots
of things to remember, like we can never, ever use our left hand
for interacting with other people (shaking hands, passing
things, hailing a taxi etc a