After several months of landlocked dustiness, almost every Burkina PCV makes his pilgrimage to that dreamy Anglophone coast where rivers flow year-round and the trees are always green: Ghana. Land of development, diversity, and luxury…at least by Peace Corps Burkina standards. I traveled with a group of 10 other volunteers (for my reference: Christina, Julia, Zack, An, David, Liz, Marty, Yanneth, and Cassandra) by bus. We bought tickets in advance and were told the bus would be leaving “right away” at 7 a.m. So we were at the bus station, tickets in hand, at 6:30. Then we waited four and a half hours. Turned out the bus we were waiting on was not going; an already-quite-full bus came from another station and squeezed us in. We expected nothing less. That put us into Kumasi around
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