Mercure Lome Sarakawa 3m

... thing "nous cherchons de l’eau: comme 'pure water.’ Est-ce que tu connais ou nous pouvons le trouver?" I think she must not have spoken french, probably only Ewe because she called a man from across the street to come talk to us. He actually knew a bit of English so we spoke to him in a mix of both broken French and broken English. After he found out what we wanted, he said something to the first woman and she walked behind her ...

... to a man in english to get directions. (by the way, we had exchanged money before coming to togo, to avoid any scams/bad exchange rates and ensure that we understood the system of money before we went).

got our directions, stopped and bought juice and light snacks and started walking.

The roads were busy and often smelled rank from the garbage that people threw in the gutters on the sides ...

... Canada!”, etc.), but it’s always fun to try and get the cheapest price possible.

The next morning, Ledzi and I met up with Kwasi in Accra. We waited by the roadside for a while, and when they stopped at the side of the highway, we hopped in. Together, we went to pick up two Canadians who came to spend a week in Dagbamete. Anna had been to the village twice before, and decided to return to Ghana with her father, Brian.

The next day, I decided I wanted to ...

... the drummers playing the language immediately after was amazing to see. Also, seeing a female master drummer in one of the drum/dance groups was really cool (there are very few female musicians, let alone master drummers). After our lesson Wednesday, we went to the local school. It was their last day of class before summer break, so most of the kids were outside playing, but it was really interesting to talk with the teachers. Also, the school was ...

... guard asked us what we had for her and Ann smiled and said "a big Canadian Smile" and she let us move on to the next step. The guard there could not find Dave in the computer expecting something. Dave said “Computers don't like me” and she finally found the right page to scan, so we could go on to the next stage. It is amazing how easy this has become. The final stage was no problem and we were in Ghana by 11:10. The car took much longer.

While waiting for the ...

... Brother, the Cousin/nephew and my host sister! It was ridiculous!

Pascal then decided to send me the code for some phone credit. I told Erica (my host sister) this and that I didn’t need it, but Mama then got all offended that I’d think her brother was ‘like that’ (pssssh!!!) and decided I had to use it. I figured it’d only be about 450 cfa.. but when Erica put the code in my phone it turned out it was 9 000! That’s about ...

... to take the car and papers to one area. They look at the papers stamp them and tell him to go to another building to hand them in and then the car can go to Togo for their paper work. It turns out the computers at the new building are down so Ann and Dave decide to walk through the border crossing and start the process of getting out of Ghana and a visa into Togo. Van Damme came with us and with the help of a ...

... rats, lizards, tarantulas, mosquitos in my room (or even all at once like one awesome time in Thailand) and even with cockroaches being there, on the floor. I can deal with there being no running water and no shower and peeing in a bucket. But not with there being cockroaches IN MY BED, and ON ME.

I didn't sleep much that night.

But now I have a nice big double mosquito net, so the cockroaches are destined to remain OUT of my bed, so all is well.

Sort of.

... jollof rice that’s soooooo good. Pam and Debbie bought some masks and other things from our friends there. On the way back home, we had the taxi driver stop so that we could take a picture next to the signs of Obama with Ghana’s President. We were the “crazy white people” out on the street that day, lol. When we got home, Pam, Debbie, and Seshie packed their things. They left for Kumasi. I waited at home for Aunty Mercy to come back. She had a ...