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Travel Blogs from Legon, Ghana
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Leaving on Jet Plane
... nice. There are 14 of us in total (11 girls, 2 boys, and the instructor Michael Frishkopf, an ethnomusicologist that travels to Ghana each year). I wasn't able to sleep for very long the first night that I arrived. Because of the jet lag, I went ...
one more month
... it especially interesting to meet male nurses. They were young too. one of them was 19! thats younger than anyone i have met in ghana period (aside from small children). Stephen, the 19 year old, is going to come to the university so we can get ...
hospital this morning
i volunteered my normal shift yesterday from 8-3 in Ward A---community member inpatient ward, general care. When i was there, one of the doctors (a really nice, smiley man...light skinned with a goatee and glasses and slightly crooked front teeth) who ...
LAST EXAM
just charting the dates of things to come, so i can see them on my trip timeline for the ...
exams
... it gets, the longer the days feel though. sitting in the dorm has been hard. but saturday matt and i will go to a pool in east legon and after that ill just have to find cool ways to pass the time until my flight....green turtle again??? we'll see! ...
Ghana Kit: Toilet Paper and Water
... fruit is quite delicious. Mangoes are in season, oranges, plantains, bananas, and many vegetables are widely available and Ghana is particularly famous for growing delicious pineapples. I have yet to figure out my exact volunteer project but hopefully ...
Rolling my sleeves up: a weekend on the ground!
... two other girls were invited to a birthday party for Samual Ntiwusu, who is a graduate student at the University of Ghana in Philosophy at the African Studies Department. We wound our way through the muddy garbage strewn paths between compounds to reach ...
In case you didn't get the e-mail
... registered in all of my classes and I've found my way around campus (sort of). I get more of a reaction from the men of Ghana then I expected. I have had a couple of proposals so far, and everyone tells me how much they would love to come to Canada. Its ...
End of Week Two and the Beginning of classes
Well I've been here for almost a full two weeks now. I feel like I am really starting to adjust to the cultural differences, although I still get frustrated with the pace of things. I thought that registering for classes was all completed at the end of ...
"I been perchin'"
... ignorance on the part of their caretakers. Ghana does have free basic health care and free public education, so Ghana, especially in comparison to other African nations is doing well in encouraging their citizens to gain an education and get ...
Finally Writing!
I apologize for not writing more often. Things here are going much better. I found out that the anti-malarial drug I was taking, Larium, was giving me nasty mental side-effects (sorry for not listening to your warning, Lindsay!) and ...
Barack Obama, Barack Obama
... the white man down. All of our program's student volunteers reassure us that there is very little racism in Ghana, and I haven't encountered any real discrimination so far. People here mostly just assume we're rich and they think that if ...
West Africa: The White Man's Grave
Yo people. The title is a quote from the Health Advisor dude that spoke at our orientation. You'll figure it out later in the post. So it's been a little over a week since I last wrote. It always amazes me how many noteworthy things can ...
Third Day
Third Day August 15th It's the third day, really the second, but I can already tell that every day is going to fly by. This experience is just going to be so short I can't even handle it. I leave to go home in exactly 4 months. After today, it's ...
Ghana!
... as dial-up was 5 years ago-but I am so so grateful that it's working at all. I have been at the University here in Legon for just over a week now, and am starting to feel more comfortable with the way things work. Here are a few things I know: ...
What an experience!!
THE FOOD- Probably the biggest adjustment since I have been here is getting used to the amount of spice they use on every dish! I have tried some Goat (just like Gpa Ray said) Joliof Rice, Fried Plantains—a New favorite food, Fuu Fu, Banku which ...
August 21st
August 21, 2007 8th day: There are gonna be the good days. There are gonna be the bad. Today wasn't exactly the best I think to a lack of productivity, but here are my thoughts... It's been quite a few days since I had written last, ...
Going Ghana-na's!
... I could pay someone else to do it for me, but I wont, because the possibility of telling my children how I “spent 5 months in Ghana washing my own clothes!” when they act up is too juicy to resist. So... funny story. The power ran out. For ...
Classes
... the mother and father work the child is left at home to ROT, and i was like waitt...and homosexual couples are VERY uncommon in Ghana-and it is not tolorated at all. So just learning stuff like that gives me a broader perspective. I gave the extras I ...
Special Report: It's Raining Bibles
... it only rains for like a half hour or hour. That's the literal part. It's also figuratively raining Bibles here. Ghana is a very religious country, and the main religion is Christianity. So there are references to the Bible absolutely everywhere: from ...
no more sleeping past 6 a.m.
... think they have very many opportunities to learn so they love coming to school and are always smiling. Last night (Tuesday) we went to Legon (the University of Accra) to a place called Pizza Inn where they had 2 for 1 pizza. It was like Christmas. I ...
International Student Welcome
August 28th 2007 Third Wednesday So today was an interesting day. I didn't do that much this morning, but really was just kinda lump around and eat food. Lol. I finished writing on my post cards, and just kinda hung out. I spent some time with my ...
Second day in Ghana
August 14th 2007 Second day in Ghana Today was also an exciting day. I awoke at 530am to the sound of doors slamming and roosters crowing, while others were getting ready for their day. Since I was without my luggage, I didn't have anything to ...
Haha. I'm in Africa...giggle.
... . Left aligned photo tag: They didn't have every class I wanted, but i still got some pretty baller ones: Ghana from Colonialism to Independence, Identities and Conflicts in Africa, African Traditional Ethics, and Practicals I which is an African dance ...
First day in Ghana
August 13th 2007 First day in Ghana!! So over the past day has been a bit of an interesting experience. I left my house around 1pm only to arrive at the SFO airport close to 330. After checking in, and learning that I couldn't have a ...
in Africa, finally!
... money today because we were supposed to be buying cell phones, so we headed down to the Bureau in Legon. K. K, a U-Pal volunteer from the University of Ghana took us there (thank god!!). I will definitely need some time to get used to the ...
I'm ghana be honest...
... David’s poo diary but I don’t think they understood it, or they just found it weird and not funny… Last night Ghana played Botswana in the African Cup of Nations and won so there was a good atmosphere in the air. Tonight we are going out ...
Akwaaba Oboruni!
... Nigerian roommate and the suites in the Ghana hostels are pretty nice, especially compared to most other dorms on the University of Ghana campus, which cram 4 or 5 people in about the same sized room that I have. Last night my friend and I were ...
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