LILLA MOLNTUSS.

 
Basically this is the idea:

I want to go to another country and work as a volunteer, probably at a school (teaching English) or at some place where they run some sort of nature care-project. The countries that I've particulary been looking at are Ghana and Mexico. I really want to go to both places, but it costs quite a lot to be there during a longer period (we're talking 8-12 weeks at each place) so maybe I'll have to narrow it down to either just one place or fewer weeks at both places. We'll see.
This whole volunteer-thingie is something that's been in the back of my head for a long time actually, but I didn't plan on making something out of it until I'd finished school and all that. I had (and still have) plans on joining the military to be able to work with the Swedish Peace Force in other countries and stuff like that.

So, why these two countries?

Mexico is a country that I've always wanted to go to someday, and both my parents have talked about going there soooo many times but it just never happened.
If I go to Mexico I'll work at a school in Mexico City, teaching English and helping out with other things. Since I already know their language pretty well I'll be able to benefit much more from this trip than the other ones going there with less language skills. I'll be able to teach better (they barely know any English at all in these areas) and maybe best of all; I'll be able to develope my Spanish an awful lot. I've been to Spain twice, living with families that didn't know any English at all and I learned SO MUCH even though I was there only one week at a time. Just imagine what 8 weeks would do for me!

Ghana, then?
When I was in primary school, my class rasied money in order for a school (or an orphanage, I don't remember) to be built somewhere in Ghana, and therefore just the name of that country remained in my brain. Whenever I think of Africa I think of Ghana in particulair.
It is also a country that, unlike many other African countries, doesn't have French as its official language. That's good, 'cus I'm very.. limited when it comes to French. Quite a lot of people speak English, and I would very much like the opportunity of studying an African language such as Twi or Ewe. Like in Mexico I would teach English in a local school and/or work with orphans.

My mother called my school today, and I've got an appointment tomorrow with the school nurse and some other people from there, and I really hope for some decisions to be made then. You have to book the trip at least two months before departure, so the sooner the better. 

My life is really a mess right now with most things not what they used to be. All I know is that I haven't been this enthusiastic about anything the last couple of months which indicates that this may be something that could help me to move forward to a better state of mind and all that.