His Majesty's Hotel and Apartments Accra

... burning so bad--thats what i get for being so close to the equator. the ride home was nice, i got to meet a guy from the university also who was pretty cool. his name was prince which made him easy to remember. <br><br><br><br>anyway, here are some pics of that day at the beach and a couple of me recovering from my sunburn in the room.

... the reformers basketball team proceeded to try and get our numbers.<br>I again assumed the role of not being able to speak English (fortunately Spanish isn&#8217;t an in demand language in Ghana)<br>My friend was however promised a tour of the Ghanaian prisons by the reformers so you know something beneficial may come out of that.<br><br>After we got off of that tro tro the evening really died down into a nice eating chicken and rice, relaxing sort of party. <br>It was nice.<br>

... service project which will be fun (and organized). Hopefully no more ridiculous stories for me to tell from this country at least.<br><br>9/24<br><br>Today we did our Habitat for Humanity trip. It was a lot of fun and was pretty satisfying. We unfortunately had to drive 3 hours to and from the site that we were working at, so that killed a lot of the day. When we got there we split into 3 groups of about 15 and went to our different work site ...

... 8230;but compared to the ******, ****** internet at the warehouse where I used to live in Chapel Hill, it really isn&#8217;t so bad. The biggest problem is that it is a ten minute walk from ISH (the international student hostel) where I live. But internet there is free, so it may be worth saving the GH¢ 120 (sign for Ghana Cedi&#8230;cost GH¢1.4 per dollar) that it would cost for 2 hours (minimum time) to use an internet café.

... change to our plans. Barack Obama was in Ghana on his first visit to Africa, and he was going to be in Cape Coast at the same time as us. This would have meant crazy traffic and tight security (and the road was washed out by rain), so we decided to spend the weekend in Kokrobite. This trip turned out better than I ever imagined. <br> On our way to Kokrobite, we visited a Liberian Refugee Camp outside of Accra. Our professor, Michael Frishkopf, has been working with some ...

... I like your smile!" I think we made some very good deals thanks in part to Sanga and to my negotiating skills. We left the beach after several hours of sun, sand and surf.<br><br>Our guide, Maggie, suggested a typical Ghanaian restaurant. We ate rice and meat with pop and water for five. The total price was 17 cedis which was equivalent to $3 CA per person. It was good, spicy and cheap ...

... and she cut and styled their hair so quickly, and it all looked so good. She did an up-do for some lady going to a wedding, and it was gorgeous. It was a big bun made of twists. She did an AWESOME job on my hair. I have cornrows at the top and the rest in braids. She added purple attachments, so now I have purple hair J I love it. She just has to twirl all the hair. Thanks you J It hurt when she did all the work, but not nearly as much as people said it would hurt. It just itches like ...

... I learned, but I kept on going, didn't stop. I knew that being the only white person in the whole wedding meant there were a lot of eyes on me, and I couldn't let them catch me in a mistake. On the way out, the same drummer gave me that smile again. Afterwards, we all went to the buffet and ate what was left of it. I had some salad, rice (I think they called it "jalaf") and some rice and bean mixture. They had a whole roasted pig that someone was carving! The wedding was very ...

... e are kill** (well, I thought so) horrible biting ants lurking on the ground ready to crawl up your trous** leg at any moment and bite you until you have to run back to the farm house, find a private corn** and rip off your jeans to shake them out and squash the beasties! &#8230;not that that ev** happened to me of course! :) <br>- Beware pineapple leaves &#8211; their edges are s**rated and cut like a knife sometimes.<br><br>Ent**tainment<br><br> I was ...

During my first year working in Africa I had the opportunity to work in Ghana twice, the first time was in May 2006 for around a month and then again in July/August for around 6 weeks. This was my first time to west Africa and it was quite different to the northern, eastern and southern parts of Africa I had been to. The reason why I went to Ghana was to establish new sports projects for our volunteers in Accra the capital of Ghana. There were a number of volunteers in ...