Hendin Court Accra

... br> Late last week, just before I left for the Volta, a new girl arrived in my organisation. Alix is from New York and will be staying for the next 6 months, teaching in a nearby school. We are currently sharing a room and having a ball together. This weekend we intended to go to a well-known beach a couple of hours away called Ada Foah, but I have developed a chest infection and the cough made us not want to travel at night when I was exhausted after work. So yesterday, instead ...

... have been no casualties. Then we visited the city of Cape Coast. Right on the water. We toured the Elmina Castle and slave dungeons. It was really intense to be in the slave dungeons where hundreds of Ghanians were kept before they died from the poor conditions or were shipped to other countries to be slaves.

There were a bunch of kids selling bracelets outside the castle and one of them asked me for my email. Within an hour he had facebook friended me!!! How funny is that! He ...

... The people range from lovely and curious to downright annoying - it's hard to tell who to trust when every second person is asking you for money or to marry you or 'be your friend', but most are just genuinely nice people.

Sign highlights so far: "Carpets and Laundries Without Frontiers", "Obama Hotel", "Obama Biscuits" (he's almost as popular as God here...)

Again, thanks for all the news from home - by comment to the blog or by email is fine. Until next week, GO SAINTS!!!!!

... places of the extra hour sessions (i went to the department offices and no one was able to tell me there, even) but it seems that the professors are pretty apathetic about attendence in general.
I think the reason is because most of the education here is self-guided. There are no tests, no papers, and no assignments all semester until the final exam in all of my classes except one (the one that is not like that is my archeology course, where 30 percent ...

... eith** strapped on their back or in their hands. (Not. At all. Necessary) 3) In Ghana, men can totally stop doing their job so that you may ask a female for h** contact information because you want to take h** out lat**. (example: Ghanaian police man in the middle of telling taxi man that he is going to arrest him takes a break to ask me for my numb**. Out of control) 4) On a light** note, children in Ghana might be the cutest things in the ...

It's June 24th, Wednesday afternoon. Church was okay on Sunday. Nothing super special. It’s a gospel church, so the music was pretty good, but other than that, I was really bored. I was the only white person there. It was awkward.

Afterwards, Uncle Sulley said that there’s a wedding in Tema, and Adom, my lunga (talking drum) teacher invited us to come and play. When I got home from church, I relaxed a bit, and then put my fancy African dress back on to go play at a wedding ...

... Mauritania a month earlier) to the first of many beach backpacker resorts in Ghana. We spent 4 nights in Green Turtle Lodge near Dixcove, simply chilling out by the ocean and waiting for happy hour to commence each evening. Upon leaving, we drove back through Dixcove, where the locals were keen to shout at us and demand money for the phone lines the truck had torn down on our way through the village....usually we hang out the side holding the lines clear of the truck with a ...

... is HUGE and much more developed than Accra, visited The Shrine Nightclub and Kalakuta Republic, Fela Kuti's commune building- my #1 goal for this semest** accomplished); CIEE weekend trip to Kumasi (stayed in the Golden Tulip, went to a Ghana vs Benin game and met some Black Stars); dance production(our choreograph** won best choreography and the dance went ov** extremely well); weekend trip to Mole National Part (saw elephants, antelope, crocodiles, diff**ent kinds of ...

... stand the drink though!)  Typical Wadzi the rest of the world is having a global financial crisis, and I've decided to throw caution to the winds quoting trite television advertisements (it is all about sound bytes people) - "YES I CAN" - its Obama's fault that sound byte is real catchy.  It also had a lot to do with the fact that my suitcase was delayed from Singapore so I just had time to grab my toilet bag out of the delayed bag which I duly ...

... tanka pa, vad vi maste tanka pa och lite annat smatt och gott. 60% av alla som kommer som volontarer blir foralskade i Ghana och det tyckte vi nog alla var lite knastigt men efter att ha varit har nu 2 dagar sa misstanker jag att det faktiskt stammer (jag tror dock inte att jag tillhor dessa ...). Ghana ligger pa listan som tredje land i varlden med flest dodsolyckor pa vagarna och den mest utsatta vagen ar den jag ska aka ...