I felt it would be useful to reflect a little now that i have spent 1 month in Ghana. So here it goes...
I love my host family. Every single member is kind and wonderfully helpful and understanding. I will hate to leave them at the end of my stay.
I will never become acclimated to the open sewers and trash everywhere. We are about to start a recycling program for the school, but i am not sure how much that will help.
It is amusing to always drink water out of a little plastic pouch.
It is totally safe everywhere in Cape Coast, even when you are lost some one will offer to walk you all the way to where you need to go, even if it is no where near where they wanted to go.
Houses come in all different shapes and sizes to the point that you aren't sure what counts as a house and what doesn't.
I like cold showers in the morning. You wake up sweating and wishing you were in Antarctica, but the shower makes it better.
One can acclimate to the heat. It just takes a lot of sunscreen, sunglasses, water and plenty of shade.
Goats are everywhere! They recycle here by feeding all organic waste to the goats...
Everyone dresses beautifully. If they are not in traditional kente, then the cloth is covered in patterns and designs that are colorful and exciting.
Taxi drivers are the only ones that can drive here. Simply because they do not follow the rules and anyone else needs to either drive like them to avoid being killed or not drive at all. They are all really nice people though...
You can make a child's day just by saying "hello!" when they yell OBRUNI!
The internet comes and goes, so who knows when or where it will work... :)
I like ghana!
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