Tuesday, January 25, 2011

how is ghana!?

mostly, when i get this question, i just feel that i need to provide a list of everything i've done here so far. so here it is:
got off the plane, its hot and overwhelming but people are nice, go through customs, get luggage, get on a bus, drive to the university, look out the window, choose a roommate, put stuff in room, go out, eat snack (first ghana pinnapple- so fucking bomb!!) called my parents (couldnt really hear them), ate dinner, played bananagrams with only my roommate (epic), went to sleep, ate breakfast, listened to auntie sharon, felicia, went on a campus tour, exchanged moneys, lunch, internet cafe for pointless US embassy registration (first frustrating time-related experience), introduction to music lecture, dinner, african dance/singing class outside (so much fun), take taxi to go to reggae night on the beach, get tipsy, take taxi home, sleep, wake up, breakfast, twi lecture, bus ride "tour" of accra with kofi, stop at accra shopping mall (wierd) to buy sim cards, rest, dinner, african dance/singing (still fun), shower (probably),  sleep, get a lil too drunk off of star (the beer here) at tyme out (a bar on campus), wake up, breakfast, twi lecture, communication lecture, uc "academic matters" lecture, campus tour, lunch, internet cafe, dinner, dancing/singing (stilll so fun omg), go out to another night club and experienced the dance kindof club (creepy, not for me), maybe made a few ghanaians fall in love with me on accident (HA!), sleep, wake up to go to church and take a shower but then decide my dress is too short and im too tired, breakfast, go back to sleep for 4 hours, go to the beach, get back from beach, dinner, dance/singing (final one, SO FUN), sleep, wake up, breakfast, bus to "round table discussion" (which was just a bunch of lectures), dinner, sleep, wake up, breakfast, roundtable again, pack for kumasi trip, sleep, wake up, depart for kumasi, get out at 3 craft villages and get attacked based on rightful assumption of money and willingness to buy, lunch on the bus, got to hostel, dinner, get locked in bathroom (naked), "kumasi by night" haha (wednesday night), no water, sleep, wake up, breakfast, art lecture, manhyia palace museum tour, lunch, trip to lake bosomtwe (so pretty), dinner, bananagrams and dominos (on our rock hard beds (that had  equally hard/large pillows)), sleep, wake up, breakfast, assin manso slave site, lunch, get to hostel in cape coast, wander the streets and play with kids at the beach (there are also pigs at the beach!! (and poop in the water)), "peer group discussions", walk with a few people for snacks, sleep, wake up, breakfast, canopy walk, elmina castle, lunch, drive back to accra, find out we still wont be moving into our permanent rooms, i feel like shit, go to sleep, feel like more shit, go to the hospital, go to the pharmacy, get home, do some bucket laundry, call dad, sleep, wake up, feel better, breakfast, really boring orientation, read, sleep, internet cafe, dinner, watch sam get her hair braided, buy beer, walk with carissa to the boys' room, drink beer, go try to find more beer, no more beer, walk home, read, sleep, wake up, come to internet cafe and HERE I AM!!

be here now.
write more later.

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