So tomorrow (or i guess at this point later today) I am flying to Ghana! We are catching the bus bright and early at 5:45 for a flight out of DC at 1 PM and arriving in Accra, Ghana at 8:10 AM on Sunday
(with a stop at JFK) total travel time is expected to be: 15 hours and 10 minutes which is actually less than I would have guesstimated.
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HI BABE ARE YOU THERE YET? :-*
ReplyDeleteI am having a hard time signing into blogger. I can see my blog
ReplyDeletebut when I go to sign in there is a server error so if anyone asks
about how things are going can u please just tell them tid bits from
these messages until I get the blog to work? Thanks. H
It's SO hot SO SO SO HOT. They are restructuring the electricity grid app (or something like that) and we frequently have
ReplyDelete"lights off" aka a power outage. Its very hard to fall asleep when you don't even have a working fan. Today has been cooler though in general (so far) since there was a huge storm while we were sleeping but I am
sure it will get scorching. Thank goodness the Aya Centre and our bus has air conditioning. I am so jealous of the people who have air conditioned homestays/more than one fan for a room (Maya and I share an osilating fan when its working) but I guess it's all part of the experience and I will get used to it and maybe become less high
maintenance? maybe? anything is possible? haha. Cold showers have never felt so good.
- H
HI!
ReplyDeleteI'm here! 10 minutes until lecture starts. So my Auntie Vic (short for Victoria) is very nice. The house is good and definitely safe. She feeds us a lot! Wants us to be fat by the time we go back home so as to prove
that Ghana has food. She is a retired widow. One of her "grandsons"(John) (not necessarily closely related but that doesn't
make a diff in Ghana). Also on the compound (there are a couple buildings and a courtyard surrounded by a wall) is one of her best friends whose husband lives and works in the US. That woman Ros has a
daughter (Kofi) who actually has never met her father but talks to him some on the phone. Also Auntie has taken in her late husband's brother's daughter (named Maple). There were 2 American "sisters" living in the house, one just left to go back home and the other is leaving 6 days before us, her name is Claire and is very nice and helpful.
Auntie Vic sometimes calls me Agua and other times Agu (pronounced like the french dip) because I was born on a Monday and Ghana has a naming system built around the day you were born on.
Hope all is going well with you.
-H
Hannah,
ReplyDeleteYour mother has helped me get on your Blog. YEA!! Grandpa and I are going to live this through you.
Love,
Grandma and GrandPA