Mahogany Lodge Accra

... there are quite a few people that live here that don&#8217;t own t.v.&#8217;s I don&#8217;t think that any of the kids that come have t.v.&#8217;s they all go and stand by the movie stands in the markets that have tiny little t.v.&#8217;s that are always playing something. <br>Everytime the oompa loompa&#8217;s would come on Godwin would laugh incessantly for about 5 minutes. <br>And then afterwards when everyone ate and we were getting ready to go, godwin came up and held both of our ...

... The other volunteers and I are now getting to the point where we feel like we would need a whole year, live-in, in make a real difference, and at the same time, we want to adopt all of them and take them home, of course!<br><br>On another note, I spent Saturday visiting Cape Coast, about 2 hours west of Accra. We started the day in Kakum National Park, where there is a swinging rope bridge in the tree tops - it was lovely and quiet and clean. A ...

... every weekend the drama department puts on a play. <br>Hi-larious.<br>Viviana (hand holding friend) took me to one last weekend. Not only were the actors and everything good but the crowd was so into it, every little funny thing that happened produced an explosion from the audience.<br>Hi-larious.<br><br>13. Sometime in the past, Shaggy gave a concert in Ghana. <br>It&#8217;s either due to this or simply Shaggy&#8217;s amazing musical talent but Ghana is always playing ...

the sun started setting tonight around 5:30 and by 6:30 the sky was completely pitch black. I was supposed to have class from 5:30 to 7:30, but before the class started, a girl came up to the microphone to tell us that 'the prof is sick and will not make the lecture.' I sat for a while to read (and i guess make sure that it was true) and left around 5:40, but since i've been in the dorm room most of the day today, i decided to go for a walk until dark ...

... unless I am sure that our water situation is worse than the ghanaian dorms on campus. <br><br>so far, it seems like UGH has done as much as it can to give us international comforts (like an internet cafe in the dorm and wireless in our rooms!), so I don't want to come across as ungreatful by complaining about something that most Ghanaians live without on a daily basis. The typical Ghanaian household doesn't even have flushing toilets or running water, so I think that ...

... we got to play with. There was loud music here, as well. And, again, everything was done outdoors. Our food was rice with spicy red sauce on the side and fried chicken (this is offered everywhere). There was an option to have banku (a large ball of dough, eaten with your hands) with spicy red sauce and spicy tilapia soup, but they fed this only to the Ghanaians, not to us. They offered for us to taste the soup, and no one in our group ...

... an appointment with the Renewable En**gy Minist** in the morning and was shocked when he answ**ed the phone himself! I must have sounded like an idiot. It was funny, we walked into without so much as a bag check! And the guy &#8211; his name is Wisdom. He is sup** knowledgeable and seemed v**y ent**prising but we couldn&#8217;t talk to him for more than 20 minutes, which was disappointing. <br><br>Getting used to living in Africa has been pretty easy. It&#8217;s ...

... egg sandwiches). Then we went to the school he teaches at which is right next door to his house. I met Bernard Woma. He opened the school and is a great xylophone player. I also met an older lady, who&#8217;s name I forgot, who has been coming to the school for 3 years now. This is her third year in a row, and she just comes to help out. I think Uncle said she&#8217;s about 74- or 75-years-old. She&#8217;s pretty awesome and hilarious. Tomorrow we&#8217;re going to go back ...

... discussion, banging on the engine, hand waving, asking for our help, and gen**al commotion followed before eventually the driv** and conductor started running down the road with some parts in their hands. Gary and I headed off aft** them and discoov**ed that they w**e going back to the last town to try and get these parts fixed. At that point we said enough! We had been on the road for about 4 1/2 hours and had made it less than 1/3rd of the way to Bobo. We demanded our money back (no ...

... to a point near the lake and from their got in a taxi to get down to the lake. We were driving along when we saw a rope across the road and a load of Ghanaians. As soon as they saw a taxi full of abruines (white people) they jumped on the bonnet of the taxi and demanded payment for going on the road towards the lake, the manner in which they did it was quite aggressive and over the top. As soon as we paid our levy for getting past the 'roadblock' we headed down towards the ...