As I’m drawing toward to the end of my stay here I thought I’d write a list of things I will and won’t miss, to remind me of both the good and bad times! I’ll list the things I will miss last to end on a more positive note! Won’t miss: • Obruni prices. • Major traffic jams. • Risk of falling into an open sewer at night. • The smell of open sewers. • The smell of burning rubbish. • Being harassed by hawkers all the time. • Ghana Man Time • Being proposed to 10 times a day. • [View Full Entry]

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I love to read trotro slogans and shop names here in Ghana, lots are religious, lots are funny, some are confusing and some make you think but they definitely make travelling around more interesting! Anyway, so it may be a bit geeky but I thought I'd compile a list of some of the best one's I've seen so far and add a few photos of the ones I've managed to capture (you need to be a bit careful just taking random photos in the street - I've been shouted at a few times! And also don't carry my camera everywhere!) Shop [View Full Entry]

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On 7th August I travelled to Beyin Beach Resort with four other volunteers - Hollie, Claire, Hugo and Callum, from where we would visit Nzulezu Stilt Village by canoe accros the Amansuri Wetlands. We had a pleasant STC bus journey about four hours west along the coast to Takoradi where we stopped for a nice lunch in a German restaurant (and also got 10% off our bill for paying in cash and not needing a VAT receipt, cheeky) then travelled another three hours along the coach on a cramped but stress-free and unusually uneventful trotro to Beyin. The nice tro driver [View Full Entry]

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Well, some of the week anyway! Thought I would try and keep a diary this week to show a typical week, but I'm not very good at keeping them or writing things down at the time so some days may look pretty empty! Monday 10thth August I was going to go to the baby unit as usual in the morning but found out that the immigration office closes at 1pm so I had to go there in the morning instead, I didn't want to end up an illegal immigrant and my visa only had 2 days left on it! This turned [View Full Entry]

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Thursday 23rd July 2009 Me, Fionnuala, Emilie, Seewon and Chidinma set off on the estimated 14 hour journey (it would turn out to be much more than this) to Mole National Park in northern Ghana. We had bought STC coach tickets a few days before, and the bus was supposed to leave at 8am but it didn't even turn up until 9:30 so we were hanging around for about 2 hours. The bus cost the equivalent of about 10 pounds for what was about a 14 hour journey which is not bad at all, but i'm still undecided on whether i'd [View Full Entry]

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This is list of observations, compiled with the help of Fionnuala, of observations on life in Ghana! I will add to it as time goes by... - Everyone loves Jesus - a lot! - They show this in the form of shop names and religious slogans and favourite Bible verses on the back of tros and taxis. - People will carry anything on their heads. - People will sell anything from the top of their heads. - Toyota Corrollas (of all possible ages) are everywhere! - Most tros and taxis would probably not pass an MOT. We went in one the [View Full Entry]

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When I first came to Ghana I spent everyday in the baby unit, where the children range from newborn to about 3 years old (although we’re not actually sure if the Aunties know the exact or proper ages of all the children because they told us one girl was 3 and a half, but a piece of paper that we saw said she was 1 year 1 month, yet she can walk properly and has a full set of teeth hmmm). To be fair it is quite hard to tell a lot of the children’s ages because they look quite under-nourished [View Full Entry]

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We (Aishu, Fionnuala and I) sacrificed a lie-in and got up early on Saturday (11th July) to get a tro to Tema Station in Accra, to catch another one from there to Kofiridua and travel on to Boti Falls. Unfortunately our travel plans coincided with Barack Obama’s visit to Accra,and most of the main roads were closed to traffic (including the road next to ours just off the main Labadi Road, which the Obamas would be travelling down on later on their visit to La General Hospital). We managed to get on a tro to Tema Station, but we hit congestion [View Full Entry]

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On Friday (3rd July 09) me, Fionnuala and Aishu left to go Ada Foah, a little paradise on a peninsula of the Volta estuary, which can only really be reached by boat (or a hefty trek from the mainland). We went to Tema Station in Accra to try and catch up with the others (about 10 of them) but by the time we got there they had already got on a tro, so we had to wait for the next one to Ashaiman, and get another tro from there to Ada Foah, where we would be picked up by a guy [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone! Not updated for a few days now, haven't been in an internet cafe for long enough to write much! Some days have been eventful, others not so! As some people may already know, a week ago today, last Thursday, I got mugged! Me and my roomate Aishu were just outside another set of volunteers house, when a guy who was walking towards us came over and said "Hi girls" as many people do, then immediately grabbed the strap of my cross-body bag, my relfex reactions kicked in and I grabbed it too, but he he yanked it again and [View Full Entry]

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