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Published: February 9th 2008
Finally here!!!!
The flight was pretty uneventful, mostly slept the whole way. We met up with the other SUNY students who are studying with us here at the University, 11 of us in total: 3 boys, 8 girls. When we landed we collected our bags, all except one girl whose bags are yet to come 😞 Outside, the woman who runs the Ghana end of the SUNY exchange program, Mercy, met us at the airport with her son and husband.
When we got outside, we were expecting blistering heat, but luckily we landed at night so the temperature was only around 60 or 70 we guessed. Mercy's family ushered us to her two vans, and many other Ghanian people followed attempting to "help" with our bags. This one guy took a liking to Shane and walked all the way to the van with his hand on top of Shane's bag. It was alarming at the time, but now looking back it was kind of funny. Mercy's husband was really good about beign really firm with all the "helpful" people, and protecting us and all our things, which is a lot to handle with 11 people + 11 people's baggage.
The ride there was slightly alarming, a lot to take in all at one time. By american standards, one would have thought that we had at least 15-30 close-call car accidents, but one quickly learns that that is simply how they drive here.
The International Students Hostel is a large four story white building in the shape of a square, with the middle cut out so that is a completely open structure, with the middle being balconies that overlook a courtyard. Our rooms are pretty nice, considering I had no idea what our living situation would be. One bed, with a shady looking mattress (but im over that), a desk and chair, a bookshelf hanging on the wall, and a bureau with room to hang and shelves.
The girls showers are 3 large individual stalls. The first one i went in, the door didnt close properly, so i decided to go to the next shower down the line. When i went in the next shower, and closed the door, a salamander as long as my hand was crawling up the shower side of the door. lol I had a minor heebiejeebie attack which involved flailing and getting out of the shower as fast as i could. I decided a non entirely closed shower door was better than one with a salamnder so went back to the first shower.
i have to go now but hope to post later tonight.
love it here!!! llove u all
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Jamie
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Sounds like Central America. Everyone who has the balls to drive in that country was, by definition, the man. Cutting people off, manuvering through the pothole maze, taking a detour across a beach- it was awesome. As for the showers I never had salamanders, but we had our share of geckos. Do you have hot water? Tepid at least? We didn't the second week lol. Anyway hope all is well and Ghana is Ghana-rific.