New Coco Beach Resort Accra

Let me start this off by informing all of you over there in the lovely U.S. that there is apparently a water shortage over here. <br>I am not sure if over here means Ghana.<br>The university.<br>Or just my hostel.<br>But there is a shortage that has resulted in a new renee; one who is much more comfortable with her smelly, sweaty self.<br><br>And to make the water shortage even better. There are electricity problems. This is the third day in a row where ...

I started my service at the hospital today. I am working in ward A at the university hospital. there are 3 wards: one is for kids, one is for university affiliates (students and staff), and the third (where i work) is for community members. <br><br>I show up for work at 9am. The entry to the hospital is over-crowded and busy, as i remembered it being before. This is the 'outpatient' section. I go through the first building and exit to go through to the back where they keep ...

Hi everyone! Well I just left Ghana a couple days ago and now we are on our way to Cape Town, South Africa. Our port was located in Tema, Ghana, but we had a shuttle that took us to Accra because that is the main city in Ghana. The shuttle ride takes about 45 minutes because the traffic is always congested due to them having only traffic circles. Overall Ghana was very dirty, with many villages consisting of dirt houses, but the people ...

... winter" since august is the coldest month here, despite the fact that it is in the mid eighties every day. people here--my roommate and one of our tour guides--have been getting colds and chills and blaming it on the weather!)<br><br>Even without witnessing a true sunset, i still like walking around here. It's a good way to actually see everything around Legon. I like running for the same reason, i think...even though we have been doing the same loop ...

... over anything else. At night here I usually just sit back and read or hang out with the other people in my program. Tonight our student advisor from Ghana, Gabby, is bringing over his computer with the movie 'heavyweights' on it and we're watching that. I'm super excited!<br> <br>internet still isn't working perfectly here (can't e-mail or IM) so comment or send me messages on travelpod! it's the only site, other than news sites that my computer will open for me<br><br> <br>

... wester part of Accra) all on our own. We got Chinese food which was really good, but expensive. We wanted to go out to a bar, so we went to a place called bywell, where Gabby had taken us before but there was no music so we didn&#8217;t stay. We had read in a guidebook that they would have live music on Saturday nights, but that was wrong haha. We ended up just coming back here when we found that out and went to bed in our dorms.

"We believe that people are good. - That is what makes us different from everyone else." Indeed, this is the founding credo of Toyola Energy. For a country in which rural customers and villagers are given absolutely no access to the formal credit or banking facilities, Toyola is truly revolutionary. They found out that rural customers hardly ever default of credit repayments, something Mohd. Yunnus has been proving with Grameen bank for the last 20 years.  Suraj has never heard ...

... is actually his cousin, but they all call each other "sister" and &#8220;brother&#8221;). She was recovering from malaria (which Uncle&#8217;s daughter in Tamale also has). So I met some family members. They were really nice. They gave me a chair to sit on, some cold water, and a fan. I felt so weird. His cousin (the sick one) started fanning me, and I was really embarrassed. I can fan myself&#8230;&#8230;..thanks. So she gave me the fan and I started fanning her, lol. I felt ...

... had a long drive to the bord**, wh**e we crossed smoothly into Ghana and w**e able to have conv**sations in english with the locals. Yay! A bush camp the first night in Ghana, then into Wa (a large town) for a few hours to change money etc, before heading to Lome National Park. We camped in the park for one night and went on a game walk early in the morning. We saw elephants, antelope, a wat**buck, and some lovely landscapes. The highlights w**e the elephants, who we saw having a bath ...

... we donated would find its way into the planting of trees so we refused. After this they turned quite nasty towards us and told all of us to put our cameras away or they would slap us, this was with a number of girls in our group some of them were 18. Overall the lake is really nothing special after all it is a lake and the Ghanaians in that area have very little idea of how to treat tourists or how to set up a tourist friendly environment so my advice would be if you are ...