Justice Hotel Kumasi

... of people with tattoos in Ghana. Group 1: the drug deal**s and pimps. Group 2: those who tattoo their name and town on their arm so that one can identify who they are and wh**e they are from in case something fatal happens. Again, v**y fascinating, and I explained to them that I hope the av**age Ghanaian doesn't see me as a drug deal**. She said not to worry about it since they und**stand I am from the US. Ok then. The wat** and electricity keep cutting ...

The old German man in our group asked me today if I had plans to go to the north. I said I didn’t think I could fit it in. We talked more and finally he said, “If you’ve never been there, no one will believe you. Anyone can read books.” That statement both motivated and angered me a little. I made a promise to myself immediately. I am going to Bolgatanga (Bolga for short) and Navrongo and skipping the remainder ...

... liquor and I supplied the Minnesota shot glass with a loon in the bottom.
On Friday, once the conf**ence concludes, we are all going to visit the palace in Kumasi and meet the Asantehene. Since this is a definite event and transportation is unreliable in gen**al, I am not planning to visit Bolgatanga in the north. It is just too much and if I left Saturday morning, it would take me a full day to get th**e (provided the STC bus doesn’t breakdown), I would be ...

Hello from Accra-

I arrived back to the capitol Accra earlier this afternoon after spending our final days in the Kumasi area with Diana and her family. After having a fast pace our first week here it was nice to relax a bit and just enjoy being in her moms village the last few days. We spent another day wandering through the busy streets and stalls of the famous Kumasi Central Market. Vender's adorn the streets selling just about anything you might want. Because of President Obamas ...

Internet och Ghana funkar ibland mindre bra. Igar satt jag i over en timme och skrev och sa gick det inte att spara. Ibland lagger elandet bara ned. It-folket, kom hit och fixa detta. Det maste finnas hur mkt jobb for er som helst har. Veckan har varit ganska lugn men lite har hant. Min rumskompis Maria har fatt malaria igen for fjarde gangen och jobbade bara i fredags. Var nya norska janta har blivit magsjuk och kunde inte jobba i slutet av veckan. Det ar verkligen skittungt att vara ...

... vi far veta nar och var, allt ar lite luddigt, men vi ar val lite misstanksamma att det galler lite tiggeri av vara pengar, vad vi kan bidra till for att gora deras by battre. Dom ar inte blyga av sig, alla vill ha nagot. Dom ser oss som ett stort dollartecken i guld. Jag ar nu ledig fr barnhemmet fram till mandag. Aker till huvudstaden Accra imorgon och traffar Trude, Ane och Marieanne som kom till Ghana samtidigt som jag. Vi ska fira sjalvstandighetsdagen tillsammans. Nu vet jag ...

... para os outros entao a gente se conforma. Internet muito raramente, a caminhada ate a estrada principal levava a voltad e 40 minutos, apesar de so uma vez ter feito o percurso inteiro sem ser apanhado algures por um veiculo transitando na estrada de terra batida que levava a interseccao. A escola ficava entre duas aldeias, Domeabra e Apromase, sendo a ultima a aldeia de eleiccao dos estudantes, por uma razao qualquer que nunca cheguei a perceber, as duas ...

... print as discreet as I humanly can. As far as money is concerned, I left Europe with my last 115€ in my pocket and, as you can figure, those are long gone. No credit cards, no emergency calls for western union transfers to friends and family, no cell phones, no technology except for the cranked up, early 90's Olympus digital camera which produces very poor quality pictures, totally unfair, untrue, unfaithful to the moments and landscapes the photographer ...

... have been gorging ourselves on traditional English food (kebabs, curry and stodgy doughy white bread); enjoying walking in the rain (more rain in 3 days here than in 3 months elsewhere); and speaking English with people, just for the fun of it.   We went to the bus station to buy tickets for our trip to Accra tomorrow.  Having queued for 45 minutes we finally got to the front only to be told that we were in the wrong queue, and to join the even ...