Legon, Ghana Travel Blogs

Leaving on Jet Plane
Jul 5, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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 to ...

one more month
Nov 6, 2009

... 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
Oct 16, 2009

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
Dec 6, 2009

just charting the dates of things to come, so i can see them on my trip timeline for the blog

Last day at the hospital- maternity ward PICS
Nov 11, 2009 (4 photos)

i'll write the entry later. now its only pics

exams
Dec 3, 2009

... 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
Jun 15, 2005

... 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!
Jul 18, 2005

... 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 ...

End of Week Two and the Beginning of classes
Aug 26, 2005

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 ...

In case you didn't get the e-mail
Aug 17, 2005

... 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 not always ...

"I been perchin'"
Feb 10, 2009 (7 photos)

... 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 proper ...

Finally Writing!
Mar 5, 2009

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 that ...

Barack Obama, Barack Obama
Jan 30, 2009 (6 photos)

... 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
Sep 7, 2008 (30 photos)

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
Aug 15, 2007

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!
Jan 21, 2009

... 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: ...

August 21st
Aug 21, 2007

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, ...

Special Report: It's Raining Bibles
Aug 29, 2008 (13 photos)

... 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 ...

International Student Welcome
Aug 28, 2007

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
Aug 14, 2007

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 tell ...

Haha. I'm in Africa...giggle.
Aug 16, 2008 (10 photos)

... . 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
Aug 13, 2007

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!
Jan 11, 2009 (7 photos)

... 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 fast ...

Akwaaba Oboruni!
Jan 20, 2009 (4 photos)

... 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 ...