Savannah Beach Guesthouse Accra

... when toilets are available, there is very little waste management and piles of rubbish gather everywhere, awaiting a day every now and then (not regularly) when they are gathered by someone and simply burned. In such a hot and humid country, it really is little wonder that tropical diseases thrive in the region. And yet there is now some education on the matter - TV shows highlighting waste disposal and the schools are generally very strict about the cleanliness.

It's very ...

... and nowhere looks opened and we are in AFRICA…I mean, there isn’t a local Starbucks where I can boot up my laptop for some wifi AND why would this complete stranger help us? They genuinely just want to HELP! Something we aren’t used to in America. I was thinking how you have to beg someone to roll down their car window and give you directions, but here they will literally walk you around their city to find whatever you are looking for. Chico could tell I was ...

... by Joyceline’s two nieces.
They were fascinated with me either because I was a visitor or because I was an abrouini (white) visitor.
Either way they were both holding my hands and asking me question on top of question.
Are you an abrouni?
What’s your name?
Is your mom an abrouni?
Is your dad an abrouni?
Is your sister an abrouni?
Are you sleeping here?
Where are you sleeping?
It went on and on until Joyceline came out of the kitchen ...

... would make that kind of fight happen between adults.

2- i got interested in the social iinstitution of family. The way mr.passah dealt with stephen was really laissez-faire. And later in the weekend when stephen fell down the response was to laugh it off and to tell him he shouldn't cry (in an almost reprimanding way). Then, if he wouldnt eat supper because he was upset, they left him be. he didnt have to sit at the table, but his plate sat there ...

... to *****ia to play their games. (you should all be familiar with *****ia. If you are not please ref** yourself to int**esting fact numb** 13) 17) Renee has joined both the socc** and the basketball team. Oh yes. African travel. J 18) African women openly breast feed their children. (this came as a big shock. Walking down the road when all of the sudden this lady whips out that. Woah. woah.) 19) Ghanaians wake up at about 5:00 in the ...

... drummers and one of the dancers, and I think I mentioned it to Adom during one of my lessons, because the first thing he did after greeting me was point to the dancer. So I walked over to him and greeted him, told him that I remembered him from the last performance. A little bit later, Adom asked me if I said "hi" to my husband, lol. Enough with the husbands! Anyway, we took a tiny break, and then we played for individual dancers. We would get (sometimes drag) a dancer into the circle and ...

It's Saturday afternoon. I finished my lessons with Promise for now. I am now studying with EK. Today I finished learning Husago, and tomorrow he will begin teaching me Kete. They are both Yewe Cult pieces. Yes, they have cults here. But they don’t view them as anything bad as far as I can tell. It’s like it’s just another religion that people take very seriously. EK has been staying at the ...

... watching me. We danced Bamaya. He showed me a few new moves that he hadn't taught at CalArts before. Then we did some drumming, and he taught me some more variations for the Bamaya lunga (talking drum) part. While we were drumming, I saw a white person! Alfred came by with a friend who builds xylophones and some white guy. I didn't get to meet him cause I was in the middle of my lesson, but I did mention to ...

... legally, my roommate, all of the wond**ful Am**icans, Ghanaians and *****ians I have become friends with, convenient street food (lit**ally, sometimes available from the middle of the road), learning so much about people and the world. My advice to anyone studying abroad in Ghana: do not bring too much, s**iously. You are going to want to bring a lot home! Don't have expectations- Africa is made up of such unique and special cultures and Ghana will surely surprise ...

Placement 1: Ghana Initial Itinerary (devised 26/09/08): Week 1 Sun 12/10 Collected from airport by ...