La Palm Royal Beach Hotel Accra

... don&#8217;t know why.<br>The lady who was helping us cook had saved a big plate for me and Kim and I could not even come close to taking a bite. <br>After finishing the bowl they were sharing, all the other kids were going around to the other bowls looking for more.<br>I wouldn&#8217;t say it was sad, but in a way I guess it was. <br>Anyway, I succeeded in making the Lorinda mad by telling her that I didn&#8217;t want to eat because we brought the food for the kids to eat and not for ...

... to, and walking and finding my way in the heat would be too much) - ensure the children have their food and homework, and that all homework is done, make sure their clothes are clean-ish and they are neat with faces washed and showers taken if necessary, ensure they have cleaned their rooms if necessary (the boys seem to destroy everything and it all ends up on the floor...)<br>8am - Hunt down children and walk 10 minutes with them to school - as ...

... involved and that is when it becomes something serious)<br><br>9. Shin guards, cleats and matching jerseys are not required for soccer games. As long as enough people show up to play, its on.<br>The same goes for Ghanaian basketball, nothing is really required. (this includes the person who keeps track of how many fouls one has. They do a good job at calling them but not such a great job at keeping track of who has how many)<br>And, when it comes to the time of a match ...

... morning when i was in the bathroom i saw another obroni (which is really not typical at all...she was actually sick). When we walked out of the bathroom she looked at me and goes 'do you hear that?' for the first time it registered with me that all that noise all at once before 5am was weird. so, i asked her what it was and told her that i hear it every morning but never really paid attention to it. Apparently, it is the sound ...

... then hesitated and said &#8216;actually, yes yes we do-chicken and chips.&#8217; After everyone at the table had been served, minus the two who ordered chicken and chips, up walks the waiter with a grocery bag and 2 Styrofoam boxes from &#8216;redd lobster&#8217;&#8212;he ordered takeout from somewhere else. It cost them GH¢10 each, but it was hilarious. I loved the atmosphere too. Open air with loud music and dancing. But they closed by 8:30 or so, so next time we will need to go sooner.

... t have anyone on his payroll. Instead he uses a really innovative incentive structure of commissions and credit that makes the wheels of his business go around. Suraj, the CEO is pretty awesome &#8211; A 6 foot tall *****ian - he op**ates more like a mafia don than a CEO. He&#8217;s constantly on the phone, barking out ord**s and moving stuff around on his trucks. This one time, we w**e passing by a big construction site along the highway and he just pulled ov ...

... couldn&#8217;t understand much of what he said cause he didn&#8217;t speak much English (actually, many of the Dagomba drummers had trouble speaking  English, so it was hard for me to communicate with them). But it was cool, he gave me two Ghana cedi for doing a good job. I didn&#8217;t expect to get paid at all, so it&#8217;s all good. Then I packed my things, and we went back home. <br><br>We took a bus home, and the lady next to me was on the bigger side. Not that there&#8217;s ...

... a carrot in its mouth, not an apple) about 10 diff**ent kinds of salads, cakes, cold meat platt**s, cheese platt**s, fresh fruit. You gotta love the French sometimes (we w**e in a hotel that included a Frensh restaurant). The trip did not start that promisingly as we had been told we could catch a taxi for about 5,000 CFA each, but when we arrived it was more like 25,000 each (one Euro is worth about 650 CFA, so you can work out the cost) which we kind of expected to happen as the ...

... of the male volunteers use to do the sports and coach football and the other volunteers would do lessons with them as well as other things. At the end of the holiday camp we held a show for the parents and locals and myself and the volunteers had to do a dance with the kids which was in much amusement to the locals to see these white people dancing around in typical African clothes. During the weekends in Ghana myself and the volunteers use to visit Kokrabita a beach ...