Korkdam Hotel Accra

... about 3 hours to fully prepare because we were cooking over this little charcoal stand thing.<br>But once it was prepared. <br>I do not think that I have seen anything like that before. <br>We didn&#8217;t have enough bowls for each kid to have their own so they had to share. <br>We also didn&#8217;t have utensils so they had to eat with their hands.<br>(just as a side note, eating with your hands in Ghana is how you are supposed to eat some foods so it really wasn&#8217;t that big ...

So, it's that time of the week again. And the Saints lost, which just tainted the weekend somewhat...<br><br>I can hardly believe that I am halfway through my stay in Ghana already. As I noted late last week, I spent most of the week at the law firm last week, but I am making up for that now by spending the whole week at the orphanage - the Ghana Bar Conference is this week, so the office isn't working. The children are wonderful as always. They are ...

... my laundry. Seriously Charity there are other people living in the hostel. But I don&#8217;t mind, the fresh dryer smell can wait until December for now it will be the grass/sewage smell of the clothes line)<br><br>7. In addition to the people selling things during lectures, anyone in general can just stroll in on a lecture. <br>(two good examples:<br> 1. Drunken man that wandered into my drumming class and began dancing and singing and would not leave until the ...

... so we have more time to get ready for our 7:30am classes). So, my alarm goes off now at 4:45 and I grab my facewash and toothbrush in the dark and groggily stumble across the way to the bathroom. <br><br>My senses are usually pretty numb and slow to wake up, until i splash the cold water over my face. Once I'm made more alert, I'm aware that 1) its still dark outside and 2) there is this strange hum of murmers coming from ...

... to Accra (about 30 minutes from us in Legon by Tro Tro) so it was really busy. But it was fun. There were a lot of very persistent vendors, who we practically had to wave off left and right. They would put their merchandise in our laps and still not leave when we said no and waved them away. I think we will likely not come back to this beach- it was just more stress than it was worth&#8212;and we all got majorly sunburned&#8230;it sucks to not be used to being this close to ...

<br>It finally hit me last night while I was sitting on the beach with a couple of be**s, surrounded by African rastafarians beating drums that I was actually in Africa!!! It has been a week since I landed in Accra last Saturday, and things sure have been int**esting :) <br><br>I spent most of last week on the road with the entrepreneur of a cook stove business, Toyola En**gy that I&#8217;m working with in Ghana. The company makes cook stoves from scrap metal and ...

... drummers all started piling into the Dagomba Chief&#8217;s house, but they told everybody to get out. Then they invited me back in, lol. I met the Chief, they told me to have a seat, they gave me some cold water. It was awesome. The house is beautiful. Then they asked me if I was tired and if I wanted a break from playing. I told them that I was not tired, and that I just wanted to keep on playing, so they said I could go outside and continue playing with the group. We played for ...

Sarah and I are now holed up in Accra, the rath** smelly, sprawling, busy, noisy, and und**whelming capital city of Ghana. We've been in Ghana for about a week now and it5 is a beautiful country with a v**y diff**ent culture to that of Burkina Faso, Mali, or Mauritania...probably a left ov** from the British colonialism when compared to the French I guess. Let me go back to all that has happened since our last entry in Ouagadougou: 1) We left Ouaga with Gary (kind of tour trip lead ...

... to and we could provide it as a tool for community development and enrichment. I set about organising the team and we held a number of trials for the team. After selecting the initial team we selected a squad who would play for our team and we trained nearly every morning at 6am and then again in the evening such was the love for football from the players. I took on the coaching role for the club but also got involved with playing as well because I love to keep fit ...