Labadi Beach Hotel Accra

... take these men home to our own countries and then work to support them while they relax all day and we also take care of all the housework!). In fact, I believe that I was sized up as wife material by a slightly older man just last night - he wanted to take me to meet the chief, and hadn't even bothered to ask about the boyfriend/husband at home formality! This way of trying to find a wife is just so ridiculous that we can't help but laugh, usually through the whole conversation ...

... of bread. he only had 10 cedi and the woman had no change--as is usual, no one ev** will take more than a 5--he was handing the bread back to h** when a guy in the back just gave him a cedi to buy the loaf. I thought it was really nice. Kaleigh pointed out that it was the first time she's really seen people be anything oth** than stingy with money in Accra.

We all agreed that this tro tro full of people was pretty awesome.

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana ellebee88

... were her own children but she had taken them all in for whatever reason.
You could see that not all of them slept in the “house” because there were little mats and blankets on the ground outside around the house where people were obviously sleeping.
The lady was sick but managed to come out of the house and greet us.
She didn’t know much English but kept on saying “thank you” over and over.
The next house we went to was very much the same ...

... and made some instant coffee with leslie.

We talked for a long time about relationships. She told me all about her past and I told her about mine and how we both ended up across an entire ocean from the people we had chosen to be with back home. She's been such a relief to talk to over the past couple weeks and always makes me feel much more comfortable whenever I get homesick for anyone.

After that, we decided we would try to get red red again at the ...

So Ghana has public transportation. It's called the tro-tro. A tro-tro is a type of van that was pulled out of Scooby doo and added a couple more rows of seats and then painted either yellow white or green. Yes. Painted.

As far as tro-tro routes, there are no set destinations. What happens is a man is hanging out the side of the van yelling where about its going. While this ...

... me that she can only change $100 because my signature isn’t exactly the same as my passport. I think my signature had a couple of extra squiggles (literally, that was the only difference). I tried to explain to her that my passport is 7 years old, and things change in 7 years. She said that her manager wouldn’t let her change them, so I took them back, changed $100, and we went down the street to the headquarters. I went to the teller, explained to him what happened, and he ...

... all the kids were watching us. The other ladies that live on the compound were watching as well. It was a lot of fun. It was pretty much my final exam. We played through all the songs he taught me. Six songs in six lessons. Not bad. Uncle Sulley was angry with me (not really angry, just joking around) because I was picking everything up so quickly.

One night….I can’t remember which night exactly, I went to town with Brother Alfred, Samuel, and Kwame. We went to Las Vegas ...

... try it. It was so good! Very strong, and very flavorful. Ghanaians say it's very "hot" cause it burns on the way down. So then we just talked a bunch. I could tell the alcohol was affecting him cause he wasn't anywhere near as quiet as he was the day we met. I was tired and wanted to go home, so we left. We stopped at his place again because I wanted to get a copy of one of his cd's (he has 3 cd's of him playing Ghanaian xylophone and singing). Then he walked me back ...

... when waiting for transport e.g. being told to be ready for 4.30am and being picked up at 7am
Occasional evening boredom before company arrived
Bit far from any night life
Eating African land snails - disgusting, but at least my curiousity is satisfied!
Slipping on the floor in front of other workers and looking a fool.
Being fed too much and no amount of badgering to reduce the huge yummy portions having any effect ...

... process development trial Weekend 2 Sat 25/10 and Sun 26/10 - unplanned Week 3 Mon 27/10 Technical ...