Miklin Hotel Accra

... and thanked us about 20 times before he let go of our hands. <br><br>The whole experience really put a lot of things into perspective for me. Things even as small as having school lunch. I remember how much we complained because the food wasn&#8217;t cooked right and didn&#8217;t exactly taste the best but it was still there. <br>It was just an experience like I have never had before and I can&#8217;t appropriately describe it so as other people can read it but just know that it was good.<br>

... change to the city. We spent the afternoon at Cape Coast Castle, the main fort used by the British formerly for the slave, gold and cocoa trade. It was quite an interesting tour, and the museum was the best I have seen in Ghana.<br><br>At the end of this week we will hopefully head to the Volta region, in the east. That's all I can think of tonight. Please continue to keep me updated about things like dust storms etc. Hope you are all well!<br><br>

... br>Always. <br>I feel like I am in the 5th grade again. <br><br>14. Ghanaian English and U.S. English is different. If someone has run out of something, like water in you hostel, the water is not gone. It&#8217;s finished. <br>Hello is used to get peoples attention. And instead of saying Hello as in &#8220;hi how are you doing&#8221; they say good morning. Good afternoon and good evening.<br>(I have definitely picked up on the whole hello useage and its enjoyably funny)<br><br>

... just went around a small neighborhood that is on campus grounds that is also a place i have been running before so i knew it would be safe. I didn't actually get to see the sunset, really I only saw the sky darken until there was no more light--there are too many trees and buildings around campus to see much of the sky. And, lately even when we can see sky there are too many clouds obscuring the view since we're still technically in rainy season (and ...

... an issue we really shouldn't worry about---no matter how disgusting we feel. <br><br>but, now that the water is back on i FINALLY got to shower and i feel amazing. I'm wearing clean clothes and relaxing in my room. I love the nights here. They are cool and usually quiet between about 6pm (when it gets dark) and 11 pm (when people are coming back from being out at bars and stuff). I also realized that my nerves are a lot more calm at night--I'm never quite as homesick or ...

... to because they eyes and tail of the fish both stuck out of either end of the bowl. I didn&#8217;t want to be rude, so I ate it. I had been trying not to eat fish because I was scared it would make me sick, but I felt that if they had just suffered a loss, the least I could do would be to suck it up and compliment their food to boost their happiness or self-esteem, at the very least. <br><br>Then at night we went into Osu (the most ...

... India 20 years ago. Being vegetarian is sup** hard tho &#8211; I&#8217;m surviving right now but might become desparate in Mali. Local food is v**y unappetizing. It&#8217;s incredible how hard it is h**e to get food to an edible form. Music and the sound of people celebrating fun**als is a constant, as are the smiles on peoples faces. I visited a local market yest**day which was a real eye open**. Constant assault of smells and faces. Just being th**e was tiring!  <br>

... I could talk to Bernard about taking lessons. I want to see how much they&#8217;ll cost me at the school, cause I can&#8217;t afford much. Hopefully, if I can&#8217;t afford the school&#8217;s classes, Bernard will allow me to take lessons with Alfred (there&#8217;s drama, I won&#8217;t get into it, especially because I don&#8217;t know all the details). <br><br>Anyway, so after we visited Bernard, we went to Accra. We took a tro-tro, first to visit Uncle&#8217;s sister ...

... but worth a try!!), grabbed our clodbb** and started hitching to anything that came past. Eventually a sup**bus stopped and we jumped on, paid anoth** 4,000 FCA each and sped of into the distance. It was so good to be on our way again and we barrelled through the dusk and into the night at 100 km's + an hour, weaving past trucks, bikes, scoot**s, pedestrians, goats, and cattle. We finally madfe it to Bobo arond 9pm, exhausted but just v**y v**y happy to be th**e. 2) The next day ...

... where we were greeted by some locals one of them who claimed to be the chief of the lands (although I am not sure he was), he then in turn started to tell us about the lake and what they were doing there planting trees to help with the lake etc etc, after the little talk he did he then went on to say how they needed money for the planting of trees. Myself and the volunteers did not want to give him any money as he was a bit of a joker and I seriously doubt that any ...