it's been awhile!
lately, my life in ghana has consisted of: a much-needed movie night at the Accra Mall to see Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs; classes becoming much more interesting- even got a few paper assignments; got and then promptly quit an internship at the University Hosptial, which consisted of me sitting around for three hours, watching the nurses of the empty children's ward watch the television, got an internship at the New Horizon Special School; began volunteering at the Beacon House Children's Home; found a hot dog stand called Hot On Wheels- YES; reading A LOT- currently on The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (for the second time); saw pentecostals roaming the fields at night speaking in tongues; went to a dance performance on campus, very good!; movie nights in our room where six of us crowd around a tiny computer screen just to get some american entertainment; traveled spontaneously to Kokrobite, a charming and beautiful beach town where we discovered a great Italian restaurant and hung out with amazing people and slept in tents; picked up an entire funeral party on our bus on the way back to Accra; found a great market with unique crafts and paintings; made great Ghanaian friends and had them over for burrito night- they were confused, we talked them through the constructio and consumption of the enigmatic burrito; bought a world map, a Ghana map and an Accra map to document our past and plan our future travels; embarked on a failed trip to Benin to see a soccer game- we were rejected at the Togo border; fed the messiest baby ALIVE at the children's home, came home with rice-covered clothes...
Needless to say, life moves fast here! This weekend, we are planning on traveling back to Togo, this time to the capital Lome. Apparently it is quite french! I've heard rumors of baguettes, covered sewers and motorcycles as public transportation.
It's amazing to be able to pick up and travel wherever and whenever we want. I've never experienced this kind of freedom and it is invigorating! School is not that demanding (a 65 percent is an A) and there is just so much to see...how can I not travel?
Peace and love from ghana.
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