Hotel Chez-Moi Accra

So this is a mixture of a journal entry and a what renee has been doing in Ghana entry. Update.<br><br>How is it that some of the happiest people in the world are those that have next to nothing except the clothes on their backs?<br><br>In the U.S. you can hear children crying because they are leaving the store without a new toy or candy in their hands.<br>Over here children cry because it is nearing three o&#8217;clock in the afternoon and they have yet to have a morsel of food to put ...

... the diagnosis was the response was usually 'he has fever, complains of pain here" etc). There were significantly fewer nurses around today than last time, too--so i got to do a lot more, which was nerve-wracking and exciting. the group of girls who had been there 2 weeks ago was only there for training, so they have been dismissed and now it is just me, another nurse who has the same job i will once im fully trained, and 2 head nurses on the ward. <br><br>The ...

... working on so most of what we did will be underground. Lunch was pretty good, it was chicken (which was a little sketchy), cabbage, and a dish they call jallof, which is rice cooked with tomatoes with a tomato sauce. We went back and did a little more work and then took off for the ship. It was cool to meet the family, especially the little kids. They were all really friendly and some people brought crayons and Frisbees and stuff to bring them and ...

On Thursday, we had one of our roommates give us a list of all the ghanaian popular music that we've heard since we got here. These are the few that remind me most of being here, waking up at 6 am from the thumping bass of the night market in the first week, walking past bars in osu, riding in tro tros with functional radios (if we're lucky), and being passed by cars on the streets who blast their radios for everyone to hear:<br><br ...

... and it makes me settle in to call someone back in NC right before bed at night, since they&#8217;ll be about to eat dinner about that time and it is convenient for me, so we can talk for a long time. <br><br>The one issue I have had with money is that I brought a visa card and entered my pin incorrectly at the first atm I visited. Since then, I have been locked out of my account, so I had to exchange cash&#8230;which I get charged more for and is not so convenient. So- for ...

... at a beach resort for a weekend, it turned out that there was a ton of music going on in Kokrobite. On Friday night, we watched the Kokrobite drum and dance ensemble perform the tradition music of the Ga people (a Ghanaian tribe). This was a very high energy concert that featured drumming, dancing, and singing. On Satruday morning, we had a lesson with this group. For half the lesson, we learned the Kpanlogo rhythm (a popular Ghanaian rhythm that was invented in Kokrobite ...

We arrived very early to check-in and luckily so! We knew that Lufthansa had changed the day of the flight but the automatic check-in didn't work for us. We went to Customer Service and the agent told us that our file was locked and she was unable to access it. She phoned somebody and confirmed that we were on the flight and was not able to guarantee that we would have seats together. Ann commented on her ever so lovely silver ...

... bring her down. I noticed this to be very true here. Everybody wishes you the best and wants you to do well with your work, but if all of a sudden you are doing better than they are, they&#8217;ll tear you apart.  I went to bed early. I wanted to wake up early to do my laundry and Adam, the lunga player from the wedding, was supposed to come the next day to give me lessons, so I wanted to make sure I got plenty of rest. <br><br>So, Sunday morning, I woke up at 6:30am. I did my laundry ...

... many bumps and dips. And they were doing construction, so it was worse. It took us an hour to get home. And that's where I am now. I'm not exactly sure what part of Accra I'm in, but I'm right next to mountains and a lot of trees, and there's a great view of the city beneath us. Uncle's roof was recently blown off of the house, so he just had it rebuilt. There's still water damage in my room, but I don't mind. He's redoing the bathroom in my room, so I'm using the bathroom ...

... school in the area that could cater for our volunteers which actually had the facilities and infrastructure to deal with these sports programs as most schools in Ghana have very little sporting facilities. The football was a little easier to establish as football in Ghana is a religion. I know that football is big everywhere around the world but I would have to put the passion for football in Ghana matches the passion for rugby in New Zealand and cricket in India, it is ...