Hillview Hotel Accra

... ventured to a nearer beach town known as Prampram. Our intention was to stay the night and return early Sunday morning, but this is not how things panned out. We found a nice place to stay, and a nearby resort-ish place (nothing like resorts in Fiji etc - very simple) where we could get some food and sat there on the sand for a couple of hours. Our problems began when we decided to go for a walk further along the beach. We had intended to go swimming, but not far along we ...

... me "God bless you and thank you for your friendship". As our ship drifted from the port we all kept waving and yelling WE LOVE YOU GHANA

DAY 5  NEPTUNE DAY!!


So today I woke up  at 7:45am to loud drumming and chanting outside my cabin. The crew was dressed up like people from Sparta with swords and war paint. When we all piled on the 7th floor deck the crew led the king and queen to their thrones. The “king of the equator" was painted completely in ...

Ghana is not.
At all.
Like the U.S.

For example: you may meet a 40 something year old woman on the airplane from London to Ghana.
This woman is Ghanaian but grew up partially in New York City and the UK.
After the six hour conversation you have with this woman she will give you her phone number and expect you to call her because she now feels as if she is your makeshift big sister/mother type figure while you are in Ghana.
The U.S. would not see this for ...

... so let it be.

this made me more interested in my class for 2 reasons. one, I was really curious what the connotation would be if one says that a person belongs to the different ethnic groups of the region. I assume stephen just doesnt know anything about the ewe people, and took offense because he thought he was being insulted. I came to wonder if there is a hierarchy between the groups and whether calling some one ewe, ga, ashanti, akan, or ...

here are a collection of pictures up to this point in my trip.

some are the hostel I was in before, some are the current one (which is pretty much identical), some are from places around campus, and there are a few from the day we decided to go to a quiet beach and ended up at a pool at a resort on coco beach about an hour from here (which was SUPER nice). Enjoy! and comment if you are wondering what any are! each one probably has a story

... of the drummers and dancers live in Ashema, so the others traveled to Tema in order to perform for the wedding). We took a taxi to Ashema. They were having a naming ceremony for a baby. When we arrived, the drummers and dancers (most of which I recognized from the performance in Suhum for the new chief, and also from the wedding I performed in my second day in Ghana) were performing Takai. It was so freakin’ awesome. I forgot to tell Uncle Sulley that my camera broke, so he didn’ ...

... of the rooms, so we were trying to stay out of their way for the most part. The weather has been getting better the past couple of days. Today we got a bit of rain. It passed by very quickly. It was definitely windy, but not too bad. More like a really strong breeze. And it happened in the middle of my lesson, lol, so we had to move to the newly roofed porch. I got a lesson today from Uncle. Everybody ...

... they had no luck with our truck and a full crew departed).
Then onto Lake Volta - biggest man-made lake in the world - which had a surprisingly unassuming dam wall. Our final day took us to Wli Waterfall - biggest waterfall in West Africa - which provided a well required swim to alleviate the daily heat. The falls were beautiful, as were the many bats flying above us during our swim, which was ruined a little when I realised that the squelchy bottom was likely to be bat ****!!!

... a bit.) Things I am most going to miss about Ghana: pineapple!, mangos, (cheap fruit and vegetables in gen**al), Nescafe (weirdly enough, I like how they s**ve it), cheap public transportation (tro-tros and taxis), consistently hot weath**, the relaxed pace in which ev**ything is run, ov**ly friendly and helpful people, the wond**fully boist**ous dancing and singing, constant socializing, beautiful custom-made traditional cloth outfits, being able to have a ...

... som hade en tjock sval/hud kvar och mycket stark och god sas. Ja vad kan jag saga mer an att sasen var god. Sedan blev det stranden igen och dom som vi sa hej till igar var vara basta kompisar idag. Folket ha ar sa otrolgt vanliga och alla ska ta i hand och vill veta vad vi heter, var vi kommer ifran etc. och jag mistanker att det kommer bli annu mer av detta nar jag kommer till min by dar mitt projekt ar. Jag stromtrivs!!!