Novotel Accra City Centre

... sort of way.
But the highlight was the ketchup.
it was imported Heinz.
Ghana makes ketchup but it tastes like weird red wine and is not necessarily the most desirable thing to dip your chips into.
We stayed there almost all day long (got a crazy sun tan. Be jealous people who are currently living in fall. Ghana doesn‘t do fall.)
Then when we went to go home.
Let me first of all preface this with a note addressed specifically to mom, possibly dad ...

... And SAS does this thing where they bring on "interport" lecturers and students, so like someone from Spain would get on the ship in Halifax, ride the ship to Spain and either study or teach depending on who they were, and get off in Spain. We had one professor and one student from Ghana who got on in Morocco and are now getting off in Ghana. And the student, this nice kid named Ni (not sure how to spell it, sounds like knee), agreed to come ...

... the dry erase board.
Children’s books here are like $5-$10 each.
Ghana clearly needs to calm that down.
So mom and the teachers at northeast are sending us over some supplies.
Awesome.
I know.

Kim and I really have no idea what to do to teach them, but a lot of them struggle with reading and writing English so we are just getting our creative juices flowing to attempt to teach someone how to read/write in English.
Any attempt is better than no attempt.

So there is this lady that is quickly becoming one of my favorite Ghanaians.

Almost every night I have been eating dinner at this place called the Night Market (its only a few blocks away from my hostel). The night market is just a bunch of little huts crammed together. All of the little huts sell just about the exact same things. (more on the night market later…)

Well about half way to the night market there is this bush. (it is clearly ...

... to shame big. Yes, it’s a monstrosity.

9) You can buy an entire pineapple for 1 cedi. (please refer to number 4).

10) The internet in Ghana puts dial up on a pedestal. (This is not a complaint but a mere observation. Patience is a virtue)

11) American magazines are in high demand in Ghana. (If I had a cedi for every time someone has asked me for oprah, people or time I could buy 17 ...

... his sister’s cloth shop. I bought some cloth to make the costumes that I need to teach, and Promise is sending it off to EK for me. EK is a tailor, so he’s making the costumes for me.

Today, Seshie is going with Stephanie, Jesse, and myself to the Art Center. I’m gonna buy gifts for all y’all. Don’t expect anything too fancy because I’m quickly running out of money. I’m really having to watch ...

... supposed to play a prayer on the talking drum before playing anything else that day). He wanted to videotape me! So he grabbed his camera and set it up on top of some wood. And we played. We played Jarigu De Salema for like…10 minutes. It was so much fun. Then he wanted to tape me playing Bamaya, so we played Bamaya. He’s going to use the video to promote himself as a teacher, lol.

Uncle calls me “crrrrrrazy lady” because I pick everything up so quickly (I ...

... They are kids toys, but Anthony, who is a CalArts alum, has perfected the art of playing awesome rhythms with these things. Uncle taught me how to play them in the car. It's pretty hard! We got home, Uncle argued with the taxi driver about the price, we ate dinner (Aunty Adiza didn't know that I don't eat fish, and she mixed some fish into rice.....I ate to be polite, but I didn't eat much). Then I took my bath and am now under a mosquito net in bed. That's all for now.  

... see the monkeys. He showed us a water hole where everyone was gathering their water for the day and hauling it back to their villages, and then he threw a few pieces of bread in and all these fish (tilapia) started swarming the surface. We then made the small hike up to the middle of a hill where we could overlook the trees where the monkeys lived. We got to see a couple from a long distance away, but of course I still loved it. then on the way back down we ...

... audits - Audit personnel function to ETI protocol Weds 5/11 Personnel and Clinic audits - Audit ...