Holiday Inn Accra Airport

... to burst out in laughter.

I kindly reminded the tro tro mate that he didn’t even know my name so how on earth could he love me.
To this he responded I love at first sight.
The entire tro tro then proceeds to burst out in more laughter.

This only results in more hello’s and the profession of the mates love for me.
The mate then proceeded to pull out (what appeared to me to be all) the money that he had made and said
Hello?
Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana reneemarie

... He agrees. Other problem is, Ni lives in Accra and needs to get dropped off there, and he's the only person with us that has any idea what's going on. Anyways by the time we get back to Accra and drop him off, it's around 10:45 PM. We drop him off, drive away, and it becomes apparent fast that the driver doesn't know how to get to Tema. He pulls over and asks someone, drives a block, pulls over and asks someone else, who turns out to be a ...

... to a highlife (Ghanaian pop) concert in Accra. Getting downtown was a little bit of an adventure (switching from between tro-tros, the public buses, and then eventually taking a taxi) but we made it. It was great to finally see some live music in Ghana. Initially, our plan for the weekend was to go to Cape Coast (to a historic slave castle and a rainforest), but we had to make a last minute change to our plans. Barack Obama was in Ghana on his first visit to Africa, and he was going to be ...

... 8217;s store which had the same stock and brands names as at home. There were not many items on the selves although we both bough a book about African naming ceremonies. Again wanting to try authentic Ghanaian food we were off to try and find a restraint. Moussa suggest a restaurant. We arrived but the girl did not seem to want to help us. This is quite unusual as every where else the waiters or waitresses have been quite helpful sometimes to the point of ...

... how to fix the heads while he was in Los Angeles a couple of years ago, but I couldn’t remember exactly how to do it. He was making my drums that I ordered, so I helped him. Then I went to have a lesson with Brother.

Friday morning, Uncle left for Tamale. There’s a couple of groups at the school. One from Fredonia and one from Concordia. I wanted to go with them to Tamale, but I couldn’t afford it, so I’m staying here in Medie. I ...

... for a long while hanging out and talking. The wedding program started late, so we went on late, but it was cool. We came in from the back performing Bamaya. Oh........my...................god. It was amazing. The other lunga player and myself were in the front, leading the whole group to the performance area. There were like, 4 video cameras, and a couple of photographers. And me, a white chick from the US of A, leading a Ghanaian ensemble, in Ghana, to perform at a wedding ...

... en fraga som jag inte horde sa han fragade igen, han ville komma till Sverige och bo tillsammans med mig. Ja vad sager man. Han tittade otaligt pa mig nar jag sa att tyvarr gick inte det. -Varfor inte? -Jag har sa manga barn hemma sa du far inte plats. -Hur manga barn har du? -9 och vi bor valdigt trangt. -Hur gammal ar du? - 46. Da tappade han intresset. Har i Ghana ar det sa att om du gifter om dig (da forutsatter vi att du ar anka for ingen gifter sig med en skild kvinna eftersom ...

... to read the "TAKE NOTHING TO THE BEACH" sign. I think that Ghana is a great country to go and visit, it has a lot of interesting things to see and very friendly people. It feels like a country that is moving in the right direction, really pretty rare for the region. My only real complaint is that the market people are really pushy, rude a lot of the time ... and bargaining with the desperatly poor is pretty soul destroying, but the prices normally start ridiculously high.

... out I was a Friday born (1st August 1986). From then on my name was no long** just “Obruni” (which I was by this point used to and kind of affectionate towards), but now also Afua or Efua, depending on the tribe. I quite liked it! Men’s names tended to begin with a K (if a boy I wouldn’t have been Jamie Adrian as my parents would have liked, but Kofi…v**y high pow**ed!).

Also if you had two children born on the same day ...