Ninii
Nina Sorheim Joined: January 9th 2008
Logged in: September 27th 2008
Logged in: September 27th 2008
Status: Still Searching....
Norwegian/Scottish lady man who grew up in Stavanger-Norway, London-UK, Aberdeen-UK, New Orleans-USA, Fjoeloey (island)-Norway with her family, but moved to NYC-USA when 18 to go to College which resulted in moving to Geneva-Switzerland, Dakar-Senegal, and now currently Accra-Ghana.
Loves traveling, painting, volleyball, orange hair, long walks on beaches, and obviously horseback riding into the sunset with Mr. Right (hint hint).
Travel Blog Posts
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After a local study shockingly revealed that there is a high rate of school dropouts (ca. 50%), primarily young girls, within coastal fishing towns and villages throughout Ghana, The Child Education and Welfare Fund decided to set up The Mother Teresa School for Girls in Senya Bereku. Senya Bereku is a coastal town in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District in the Central Region of Ghana. As a natural consequence of its location, the sea provides the main occupation through fishing. Whilst the men do the actual catching of the fish, the women process and market the fish to domestic consumers. The problems are multiple. Senya Bereku is one of many fishing towns and villages in Ghana, and throughout the coast of West-Africa. Fighting in a competitive market, often lacking basic technology to process or preserve the fish over ... read more
my office
I've always been one of those believers that travel blogging would be a lame thing, but not yet sure if thats mostly because i cannot be asked to figure out how to work the overly complex sites or if im plain lazy. And how much fun is it really for someone to read a travel blog? Lord knows, i have had a couple of people fall asleep while showing them the thousands of photos from various places. "And this is when we took a walk." But hey im going to start a travel blog, because if you don't want to read them you don't have to. Easy Peasy. Although, my personal opinion is that you should keep reading, because well, i wrote them :) Now I'm in Accra, Ghana working as an Aiesec and Norwegian FK ... read more
Abidjan
OCTOBER 2007 Well hello there…just had one of the strangest..most beautiful weeks of my life..and im going to tell you all about it… Last Tuesday..to be exact..i was extremely worried that I would not get a visa to ivory coast because I had been in that stupid embassy about 9 times…sometimes my fault…but mostly theirs…closed..then don't accept applications..something wrong with my passport..not enough pictures..so just understand nina huffing and puffing..most of the time ive been out the night before and 8 hours at work just is not appealing…but neither is sitting at an embassy waiting for it to open either..…and its really hot..i mean really hot..…oh well I got to get out of the office a bit…my office is airconditioned though which is not the case in the embassy….anyhoo…david and nils..my bodyguards decided to leave on ... read more
Presidential Visit
NOVEMBER 2007 I'm sorry but this has been an amazingly weird day so far, and i just wanted to tell you ALL the details before they slip my mind and my only focus is hand washing my underwear. Yesterday i found out that the (newly elected-not the warlord-for you jason) president of Sierra Leon was coming to our office today, because he is a former insurance broker and a student of my boss. He is in Ghana trying to find investment or firms interested in rebuilding Sierra Leon (for those of you that did not know there was a horrible civil war there). My boss is building a bank there (like you casually decide) and an insurance brokerage firm, conclusion he is RICH. So Nina (yes today i refer to myself in third person) forgets sorta ... read more
Moto Rides
For those of you who aren't acquainted with turtle girl...yet...it includes me (obviously) carrying a heavy backpack...the rest is self explanatory. To start off i did not have a heavy backpack, but after a series of 'mistakes' in Togo it turned out that way................... Crossing the border into Lome was really easy.. There didn't seem to be any obvious system and the constant wind blowing our documents away didn't speed up the process, if there was one..Anyways after the border nonsense i was DETERMINED to find a taxi moto (moped) to get to our hotel..So whilst everyone was changing money i spotted MY MOTO MAN. There he was...a giant piece of muscle with one of those haircuts that MC Hammer has, extremely tight denim jacket with old man glasses like mine on a moto. oh man ... read more
what a nightmare...i brought soo many clothes back to ghana...its actually ridiculous..now i have soo many clothes in AFRICA. i dont know what to do with them. being a girl in africa is tough..am i the smelly hippy chick saving the world? am i corporate but not taking a shower? are facemasks acceptable? how do you make sweaty armpits look good? When can i start being comfortable saying thankyou after someone calls me fat? Is it okay that i like moisturizing even though im just rubbing around dirt? And speaking of dirt: Even though there is dirt at the bottom of the bucket do you still use it to wash or is it purely for toilet..and most importantly when will i not care again? Hmpfh LIFE QUESTIONS. these are two stories you should know about: 1. ... read more
