Well, I have a few days to catch you up on! My internet here is worse than I was expecting. The hostel that I am staying at has wi-fi but it has been out for the past week because the gardener accidentally cut some wires or something. There's free internet at the International Program Office, which is a 25 minute walk, something I am not willing to do after dark. It gets dark here around 6 pm, which is weird for me since I just came from summer! We are in the rainy season here right now, but I have yet to see it rain. It's mostly just cloudy, with the sun poking through every once in a while!
So in the past few days, we got a city tour of Accra which was pretty awesome! The city is full of people and little tiny house type things made of cement. There is a large amount of unfinished houses sitting everywhere, which was surprising. We were mostly on the bus but we got out for a little while and made lots of new friends with people that were playing soccer. Its funny how if kids or teenagers see you with your camera, everyone wants a picture! (If my internet were better I would upload them, I shall continue to search for faster internet!) But we got to see the British part of town and the Dutch part of town. It was really interesting!!
Then yesterday I went to mass! It was really cool! All the songs were in Twi, which is the local language here. The sermon was really good and super long, and with some extra twists added in the whole thing took about 1 hour 40 min! By the time we were done meeting new friends (and taking pictures, of course) it was 2.5 hours later!!! It was a really cool experience, I'm looking forward to going back! Then we hit the BEACH!!!!!!!!!! It was awesome!!! We got really good food and complimentary wine! It was South African wine called Obama of Africa! Hahaha! The beach was nice, the sand was soft and the waves were huge!!! There was a good amount of trash (mostly clothes and plastic bags) in the water but once you got over that it was really fun to play in the waves! I loved it!!! Can't wait to go back!!
Today we had an orientation with the other international groups! Everyone was really friendly and it was very informative!! Tomorrow we are doing some more of that and starting to pick out classes!! I'm excited to see what I will take!! Okay, well it is midnight here now so I should go to bed!!!
Talk to you all soon!
No comments:
Post a Comment