M Plaza Hotel Accra

... have a whole lot of muscle in them.<br>Anyway, Godwin is the most appreciative kid I have met there. While we were cooking them food we brought along Kim&#8217;s laptop and played Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<br>The English was a little difficult for them(they said that the people were talking really fast so they couldn&#8217;t quite understand what was going on)<br>But Godwin loved it.<br>I mean loved the movie.<br>Just seeing the computer and the disk excited all the kids ...

... because of their drastically poor backgrounds, which would mean that they did not have correct nutrition as infants. There must be a reason anyway... So it can take over an hour to do 4 science questions with one child, since we have to teach them to read the question first, then wait for the answers they have learnt by rote, and tease out the important parts for their homework.<br><br>But they are not all like this, and they are still lovely ...

... want to let go of your hand but I am not type of thing. One persons pointer finger holds the other persons pinky finger. It&#8217;s weird) <br>Anyway, I hadn&#8217;t seen Viviana for a few days and she ran into me when I was coming back from a lecture and did the whole hand holding thing. For at least 5 minutes.<br>It was awesome. <br>(and by awesome I mean highly awkward and uncomfortable but I definitely felt Ghanaian (minus the whole being white issue)<br><br>12 ...

... to sleep until 10 on days when they dont have class. <br><br>ghana is definitely an early-to-rise place. it fits me well, i guess because i'm a morning person. I just struggle without my usual pot of coffee...can't wait for my first morning in the states--to wake up probably before dawn and put on a pot and just relax all morning without any noise in the streets--because i know people back home wont start moving til at least 7 or 8 am.

... out that FINALLY the water is back on. This is after a series of losing it for 4 days, having it on for 1 day, having it off another day or 2, then back on (but brown) for another afternoon, then off 1 day again. A lot of people in our group have decided that we need to complain about the water situation, but i am hesitant to jump on board. It does seem like we are out of water much more often than ISH 2 and jubilee (the other 2 dorms next door to us), but I don't want to ...

... the gravesite and listened to a priest do blessings and the crowd sang. One son of the deceased jumped on top of the coffin in the grave, and screamed and cried. This was a bit traumatic, and hard to watch. It was especially startling just for the fact that it is SO different from the way things are done in the U.S. <br><br>Afterward, we went to the deceased&#8217;s brother&#8217;s house and were served lunch. Many children were around ...

... is the moth** of invention &#8211; and this is so true. People NEED renewable en**gy h**e. They don&#8217;t have the alt**native of flicking a light switch like we do. They don&#8217;t have cash. But if you trust them with credit or allow for bart** financing, the sale becomes possible. <br><br>And then, th**e was the rath** sob**ing visit to the Ministry of En**gy on Friday. Once you visit an African gov**nment office, a lot of things fall into place. I had called ...

... Today (Thursday, May 21) we worked on the same rhythms to make sure I had them down. I still need some more work. I just have to get the rhythms into my ear more so I can pick them up immediately while I&#8217;m playing. It&#8217;s like&#8230;.I know the rhythms, but I need to be reminded of them, even just the beginning of the rhythm, and then I can pick it up and finish the rhythm. <br><br>Today, Uncle and I started our lessons at about 8:30am, right after eating ...

... be a bit frustrating but nothing to really worry about). Aft** that the van ov**heated - can't imagine why when carrying such a load!! - and then we had a flat tyre. Now, normally any of these issues alone would be OK, but combined it ended up being a disast**, especially when the tyre changing became a farce and took ov** 45 minutes!!! Once the tyre was finally changed we piled back in and prepared ourselves for whatev** was to come next. The driv** turned the key and...nothing ...

... my daily diet as I tend to eat very well I would often find myself craving certain foods. I would always buy oranges from the side of the street to get my vitamin c and they have some meat from the kebab man next door. One weekend myself and the volunteers took a trip to Kumasi, Ghana's second city. Kumasi for me did not really have much of an appeal it seemed like a normal African city. We took a trip to Lake Bosuntwi which was quite eventful. We caught a bus from ...