I arrived in Africa about ten days ago to spend the next four months studying at the University of Ghana. My rooming situation is really sweet, I live with five people from Nigeria. They are very nice and love talking to me. My Ghana diet is very different from my Chi-town diet. I eat fried rice with spicy brown sauce, chicken, lots of fruit, and some weird starches called foo-foo and "bang-coo." The drinks are different as well. There's this weird spicy soda called a Malta which is made by Guinness. Beer can only be bought individually (no six packs or thirty packs), which discourages students from binge drinking. However, that did not stop some of my neighbors who still managed to get drunk and vomit in the hallway of my apartment. The water in my
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