Emperor Suites Hotel Accra

... I am not a huge fan.

I have also noticed this with the kids that I have been teaching. I have been trying to teach them how to sound out words and it is not working.
at all.
Their is a Ghanaian girl, Lorinda who has been coming help teach as well, and when she comes, she teaches them to memorize words by repeating.
A-M AM. A-M AM.
it's just incredibly different and hard to adapt to.

... We were in the middle of the jungle and it was gorgeous. The Ghanian women who lived on the site made us all lunch. There were chickens running around all over the site....and for lunch... we had chicken. fresh. haha. We played with the kids who lived there and gave them frisbees, stickers, markers etc. They loved it ! They didnt have paper so we all tried to muster some up from our journals and different things. One of the Ghanians who was our age had a shirt on that said "The only ...

... impossible to buy. So for the past week, the kids at the orphanage and the school have delighted in staring at and poking the huge bandage on my knee, and strangers in the street have been constantly asking how I hurt my knee, and apologising when I explained. Indeed, as I came to the internet cafe tonight, sans bandage for the first time in a week, a man I don't recognise at all asked me how my knee was, and if it was healed yet! Every nurse in the hospital has also informed me ...

I just got back from my biopsych class and realized that i pretty much always leave my classes in a really good mood. I think i like the system they have for class here. Each class, like ours, is worth 3 credit hours. But, instead of meeting 3 times a week for 50 minutes each, we meet once a week for 2 hours (and usually will also have a 1 hour "tutorial" or "practical" session--like a recitation or lab).
So far i have been having trouble finding the times ...

... 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 ...

... so much fun.

We also ate and at a local chop-bar that came highly recommended by other travelers. Being that it was my final full day in Ghana I wanted to have some more local food, I had yet to try fufu which is a very popular here. It is pounded cassava and plantains that turns into sort of a soft doughy, gelatinous texture. To be honest it was not my favorite but I did enjoy the delicious ground nut soup that came with it and for desert delicious fired ...

... we visited Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary, where we enjoyed getting close to wild monkeys in the forest - some even ate from our hands. Kumasi provided another opportunity to go out on a Friday night, where some partied til the very early hours. It also had the biggest market in West Africa, which provided must excitement and colour, not only in the market but also the bustling surrounding streets.
We then drove to the coast (our first sighting of the sea since Nouakchott ...

... free time because Twi was ov** and the beach and the coffee house down the road became part of my weekly routine. So much has gone on ov** the past month and a half that it is hard to recall all of the events. Highlights include: weekend trip to Keta, a town with BEAUTIFUL and quiet beaches and a rich history (we visited the slave castle th**e and learned about how much the slave trade impacted this town); weekend trip to *****ia to visit Seun Kuti (so much fun ...

... every woman needs as therapy - this year I decided that I would carry as little luggage as possible and buy clothes on arrival.  An admirable aspiration except that the budget never quite covers what you need and I'm trawling 20kgs of literature which I have to read - so much for travelling light but it looks very scholarly.  (This is Wadzi after all - "Image is Everything" - or maybe it's "Obey Your Thirst" - I love Pepsi advertisements ...

Antligen i Afrika!!! Efter lite strul med planet efter mellanlandningen i Lagos sa kom vi antligen fram till Accra. En Paul motte mig och fyra andra tjejer pa flygplatsen och kordeoss till hostlet dar vi bor fram till fredag. Dom andra tjejerna ar tre st fr Norge och en fr London och senare under kvallen kom en till tjej fr Norge. Var forsta dag i Ghana och Accra borjade i mandags med att Tina gav oss en introduktion av vad vi ...