La Lune Lodge Accra

... a deal that we didn&#8217;t have any utensils)<br>Once the kids had gotten their food, it was gone in not even five minutes. <br>Up until this point I didn&#8217;t realize that when they came for us to teach them, most of them had yet to eat anything that day. We come around 1:30, 2:00 in the afternoon. <br>I cannot explain what exactly I was feeling while this whole cooking food thing was going on but it wasn&#8217;t a good feeling. <br>I guess I could possibly describe it as guilt ...

... at school in earnest now, and it can be tough to shoo them out the door in the morning, and then to get them to sit still long enough to do their homework in the evenings. My day currently works as follows:<br><br>5.30am - Wake up and prepare for the day (they wake ridiculously early here - I am a late riser!)<br>6.30am - Head to catch the tro-tro to the orphanage<br>7am - arrive at the orphanage (probably only 3kms away, but terribly slow to ...

... grabbed him and pulled him away from the class.<br> 2. In almost all of my lectures before the teacher gets there, there is someone preaching the bible and or advertising a church service that is going on somewhere on campus.)<br><br>8. It is also normal for people to stand outside of your hostel and preach the bible. And apparently 5:30 in the morning and 10:00 at night are the prime times to come and yell about Jesus towards peoples porches. <br>(sometimes megaphones ...

... the dorm almost every morning. It really never registered with me, becuase I'm used to street noise from home and when i am here, i just assume it's from people at the night market or some ghanaians in our dorm just hanging out and talking, unintelligible to me. Afterall, most mornings at this time, a few rooms have their lights on and i frequently pass the tv rooms and hear the tv on or music and people talking. <br><br>But, the ...

... to let everyone at home know that I'm actually doing OK. I said i'd call last night if i got better and since i didn't call anyone i wanted to tell you now.<br><br>people in my program have been really nice to me while ive been sick, though. i think everyone has asked if i am feeling better, and a couple people came with me to buy some clear sodas, juice, and crackers last night. Jordan even came by my room today to bring me an external hard drive with movies saved on it ...

... equator. <br><br>At night we went to a restaurant. I forgot the name, but Gabby took us there. They had live music and a dance floor&#8212;which people actually danced to. The menu was limited, but I got 2 rice balls and palm nut soup. It was spicy, like everything else here and also had a fishy flavor, which I didn&#8217;t like very much. But it was good to try. Two people in our group order chicken and chips (French fries) from the menu. The waiter said they didn&#8217;t have ...

... them using a microfinance model which is v**y unique in Ghana. We traveled across three regions in Ghana last week visiting his custom**s, his &#8216;evangelists&#8217;, the production and assembly cent**s and the kiln manufacturing plant too. It sounds v**y legit, but the reality in Ghana is that all business int**actions suff** from lack of credit and most business op**ates in the informal sector. His value chain encompasses atleast 50-100 p**sons but he doesn ...

... people who got up and danced and put money on peoples&#8217; foreheads. Then we went to the Dagomba Chief&#8217;s house and played for him. He and one of his wives stuck some money on my forehead as they danced. Eventually, enough was enough. The people in the village were kinda over the excitement. So the drummers invited me back into their room (they all split a room and slept on pads on the floor) as they counted the money they made. One of the lead drummers, Luna, was talking to me ...

... Kira (anoth** travell** on the truck) with the intention of coasting down to Bobo (Burkina Faso's 2nd largest city) to catch up with the truck. Sarah was feeling much bett** and we had really enjoyed the few extra days hanging out by ourselves, having the opportunity to call some people ( a big hello to all those we did not have the numb**s to call), and spending time having some dates and eating a sup**b all you could eat sunday buffet which included a whole roasted pig (sadly it only ...

... play football myself. Travellers sponsored the team buying them a kit, balls, cones and other equipment to use of the club. Everything was going well and whilst I was there when we played our first game in which we lost 1-0. During my time in Ghana I was also running the holiday camp which our volunteers were working in. The holiday camp was great as it allowed kids from the local community to do something in the holiday rather than just sitting around. Myself and Chris ...