Gye Nyame Hotel 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!!!!!

... kids what went wrong. They all said that all that happened was that the local kids were speaking their tribal language (ewe) and one kid said stephen was from the city, but another (the one stephen hit) said no he speaks ewe.

After a while, mr.passah, stephen's grandfather and our tour guide came outside and he told us there was no need to keep the kids separate and basically said that things happen that way and stephen IS a city kid and kids just ...

... needed. Aside from phone calls that is.) 24) It is completely normal for the wat** or pow** to shut off. (In the wat**'s case, it took four days until they w**e able to turn it back on. I guess sometimes the laid-backness can be a disadvantage, but hey I am definitely getting to be more comfortable with dirty, smelly renee J) 25) If the word 'prompt' is nowh**e to be found on a schedule, nothing will be on time in Ghana. (Again. Ghana is awesome)

... the wedding is at. He just led us there. Walked with us the whole way. That’s why I like Ghanaians. When they help you, they really make sure they help you. So we got there, and there were drummers and dancers, but none that I recognized. Uncle saw a few people he recognized, including the Dagomba Chief of Tema. We went and greeted them. They told us that there was another event not far from where we were, in Ashema, so the group split up and some went to perform there (actually ...

The freakin' rooster keeps waking me up! There are chickens and goats that roam around freely. This one rooster in particular keeps waking us up at like, 5am. It's so annoying. Other than that, I'm sleeping well. This morning I did my laundry and then just hung out for a while. Uncle Sulley had some workers rebuilding part of the roof on his house. They did all the porches today, and did some cement work on ...

... with 40m to drop, but I provided great entertainment for many others). The afternoon was enjoyed learning an African chess-like game over a couple of beers at Hans Cottage, whilst fretting over crocodiles wandering the campground/hotel with little barriers....interesting!!
Big Milly's in Accra was our next stop, where we spent 4 nights whilst securing our Togo and Benin visas - the most touristy beach resort with many Rasta's hanging out wanting to marry some white folk ...

... that people h**e don't stress about being ov**ly efficient in the way that people at home do. Even though I have had a wond**ful semest** and would have nothing diff**ently I am realizing all of the things I am looking forward to going home to, like hot show**s, clean bathrooms, rugs, FAMILY and FRIENDS, und**standing the language being spoken most of the time, variety in foods (salads, moms pasta salad), real coffee, not being stared at, efficiency (I actually miss ...

... molnigt och disigt och ca 30 grader varmt. Idag fick vi vanta drygt 2 timmar pa att bli upplocklade av Charles, har gar man efter African-time, dvs dom kommer nar dom kommer. Det blev en tur till olika marknader, allt saldes fran kapade djurben till vacka tyger. Sedan var det lunch och jag och Emma fr London provade nagot okant fr menyn. Det var kokt ris som lag som en slembulle i botten pa en djuptallrik och sedan var det en ...