Last week I finished classes!!! I can't even believe it. We only had 13 weeks of classes and each class met only once a week, so that part of this experience has definitely flown by. Now I am left with studying for finals. :( My first final is on Thanksgiving Day which kind of stinks, but we have a big dinner at the ISEP director's house to look forward to. Then my next finals are Nov. 24th, 26th and Dec. 10th. I feel like I have SO much free time now without classes or other things going on really. I haven't gone swimming yet this week so maybe doing that in the morning will help kick start my day. I'm having a bit of a hard time getting motivated to study with finals feeling so far away still. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a very productive day. Today I went to a bakery in the airport residential area (kind of nearby actually) called Deli France. They had super expensive food so I only got a bottle of water, but they had the fastest WiFi I've had in Ghana! That was fantastic. I was even able to stream videos without it stopping every 30 seconds! I actually watched a Ted Talk about modern day slavery and a large section of the video was about Ghana. I had no idea! It really broke my heart. Here is the link to it in case anyone is interested:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_kristine_glimpses_of_modern_day_slavery.html
Anyways, this past weekend was really great! On Friday I went to a village called Ada Foah about 3 hours from Accra. I went with my friends Tatiana and Kelsey from ISEP. It was absolutely amazing! We left at 6:00 am on Friday and spent the night at Maranatha Beach Resort. It was so so great! The resort had little huts as rooms, with normal beds and mosquito nets, but just sand as the floor!! Each hut had the door painted with the image of different country's flags. I'm not sure what country our hut was, but I'll put up the picture and maybe someone will know. Friday was unfortunately really cold and stormy so we didn't get to go swimming. However, my group was the only one there besides an Australian couple and later in the night a Belgian couple arrived too. It was really nice to talk with them and exchange Ghana stories. The Australians are medical students so they are working in a hospital here for two months. The Belgians were here on their honeymoon! Apparently the lady had volunteered in Ghana five years ago and they just loved it! We had a really nice time talking to all of them.
On Saturday the day was nice and sunny! I basically spent two hours straight in the water before we left. The waves were really big and forceful so I didn't go out too far but it was still super fun! After we finished swimming we just ate lunch and headed back. The resort is an hour away from where the trotro drops you off-- by canoe! There is a lagoon on one side and the ocean on the other, so you canoe out to the resort on the lagoon and then swim in the ocean. It was so beautiful! On Saturday we got to see the sunset even and it was so great! The best part is that everything was pretty affordable! Yay!
We came back on Saturday evening so on Sunday morning I went to mass bright and early at 7:00 am. I got to take Rejoice with me so that was fantastic! I just love this girl and it was so great to finally be able to experience Mass together. :)
Pictures from the beach:
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