Ghana Hostel Accra
Keta Close, Ring Road Central Accra, Ghana
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The Day I Became a Teacher (Lauren)
... told me too, they have a lot of volunteers coming and going, so seeing that we kept coming back was a big help as well. I won’t pretend we were without our hair-pulling moments, but Craig wasn’t having to spend hours counselling me every evening any more. He even commented one day “you have a happy glow, it must have been a good day”, and I realised it had been.
The kids are really sweet and can be so much fun. I have ...
Accra, Ghana
... dollar bills). There were only four of us on the tour, by the way.
I’m a little disappointed that I missed out on Cape Coast Castle & the canopy walk but at the same time, relieved that I was saved hours and hours in the bus. I feel like I’ve spent half my time in Ghana on buses getting thrown around. Instead, we took a cab to Accra, the nearby city, which was supposed to be better than Tema in terms of things to do and see. But I was not impressed. It ...
A last return to Accra
... circle would have been able to open a car door at that point! If for some reason we would all have to exit our cars, we’d have to climb out through windows, and then perhaps walk over the hoods of other cars in order to get clear of the area!
Street peddlers are a constant of life in Ghana. Every intersection, police barricade or check point is crowded with people walking in between the cars and busses hawking everything from ...
Leaving the Motherland
... dude! The professor was shocked to see me and especially working in the museum labratory. Before I left Chief Abu told me lots of random stories about when he was living in DC and training at the Smithsonian Institute, it was very interesting.
After work I went to Circle to buy some more cheap movies, on my way I saw Steven for the last and final time! When I got back to Ikando I took pics ...
Autism, Slavery and Teacher's Union
... convert it into a two classroom school. The autism center is completely privately funded by donations and receives no money from the Ghanaian government. They rely a great deal on volunteers and have tried to mimic as best they can the teaching techniques from the U.S. They do not have any occupational or speech therapists on staff. There is a lower level primary classroom and a secondary level classroom. Every one or two students has an adult staff or ...


