2 more weeks here and gone!

I still can't get over how it seems my time here in Ghana is slipping right through our fingers and standing still just the same.
Another two weeks have come and gone but we have continued to fill our time here with adventure and excitement (and school). In Kumasi, ISEP stayed at the Engineering Guest House at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) which was very nice -- it had water heaters in every room! We visited several craft villages to buy Kente cloth, Adinkra symbol stamps, and wood carvings. A portion of the group visited the largest natural lake in Ghana, while the rest of us wandered through the market, which happens to be the largest market in all of West Africa!
Of course I was one of the people that had to get sick while we were travelling, but fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I did not have malaria. Unfortunately, not having malaria meant that it was more difficult to assess what I did have in order to treat it, and assuming it was just a cold, I did not seek treatment until I was completely miserable about the middle of last week. The cough I had was giving me raging headaches, I was congested, and just overall felt terrible. Thursday I went to a private hospital where they did a general blood test to determine whether my issues were being caused by bacteria or a virus. It seems I have a bacterial infection so they prescribed antibiotics (and several other basic medications for my various symptoms) and now, even though I still have a cough and a slight runny nose, I am feeling 100 times better :) -- ready for another week of classes.
Next weekend I'm planning on going to Togo (the country bordering Ghana to the East) for a few days, with the full purpose to be that upon re-entering Ghana I will receive a new 60-day stamp validifying my student visa. This will give me a chance (or rather, force me) to brush up on my French speaking (and probably reading) skills and will just be an over all great opportunity to see another country in West Africa!!!
More to come after that :)