White Rice, Fried Rice or Jollof Rice?

Or Chicken or chicken or chicken? Yes folks today we talk about food. let me tell ya! Ghanians make good food. a bit spicey but after awhile you get used to it. The only issue is that there isn't that much variety... You kinda have to search for it. IN fact i didn't eat any meat for a couple of days mostly because if i had one more piece of chicken i might have died. We try to mix it up and get some fruit every once in awhile. But pineapple has a habit of hurting after awhile and you don't look ver atractive eating mangos... But they are soooooooo good here. Today we remedied our chicken and rice rut. We had American food! We went to this overpriced Friendly's knock off and i thought i was in heaven. I had a sandwhich! I know that's not very PC or very adventerous but hey everyone get's a craving for the food that they have at home. And the best part? We didn't sit down and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of Cipro, Immodium and pepto tablets. in fact no one popped any of those pills after a meal! Oddly enough that was pretty much a first! It's funny how acceptable table conversation topics change....

Why one should not ride in a taxi alone at night...

Ok I love Ghana! if it sounds as if these are all horror stories don't take it that way. These are one in a million things that i've just found to be hilarious here. Anyway, one evening a bunch of us were going out. By a bunch i mean we filled up 4 taxis with about 5-6 people each. Anyway, my cab was no exception. The cabs here are like pretty much every other african cab... about to fall apart. if we were in the US i don't think a single one would pass an emissions test in any state. Anyway, we had two girls sitting in the trunk (it was a station wagon) and three in the back seat and one in the front. first of all this guy takes us on a ridiculous amount of back roads... The type of backroads with no street lights and random guys here and there standing next to trees. He also wasn't the most careful driver... i felt as if we were't quite on the right side of the road at times. Like man other places ghana's road drainage system are basically 3-4 foot gutters on both sides of the street. with no covers. So on one very sharp turn, our lovely cabdriver manages to get one wheel in the gutter. The two girls in the trunk probably have bruises from that bump. At this point in time the radio shut off and his lights started blinking. So he pulled over (keep in mind, creepy backroads and no lights...). So he checks his tires and everything is fine. he gets back in the car and turns it on. well tries to. it doesn't start. So we start kind of freaking out but there was a guy in the car with us so we weren't too bad. after a couple minutes he jiggled something and the car started. but i was starting to think we'd have to treck to the nearest road with lights and find another taxi... To top things off when we finally got to where we were going, the taxi driver wanted us to give him more... like it was our fault he can't turn a corner... oh well! I hope everyone is well! is it snowing there? Love ya!

hey there! I hope the new year is treating everyone well! I know some people are starting school again. How's that going? anyway, Ghana has been pretty cool. I still haven't met my roommate but apparently she's really nice (according to the porter). We're in the rich dorms apparently. One of my suite mates has a laptop, fridge, tv, microwave, boom box and a car. this is pretty much unheard of considering some of those things are more expensive here than they are in the states. it's actually a nice sized room. really high ceilings and lots of space. it's crazy cause you have to lock everything here. there's a lock on my closet, then on my door then on the door to the suite. it's kinda getting old but i know it's necessary. There are 6 people per suite with two bathrooms. The showers are 2 degrees below freezing which you would think would be refreshing in the heat. it's not. i'm slowly getting accostomed to it though. The hostels are kind of far from campus but i think i got the best deal with housing. it seems as if i wouldn't have been very happy in the other places.

The food here is GOOD! It's so spicey though. I pretty much will leave plates half full cause i can't handle it anymore. But it's really good, and cheap! i've been getting meals for like 40 cents... Anyway gotta run! Talk to you later!

Hello!!!

Sorry i haven't posted for awhile. it took forever to get to an internet cafe. I LOVE Ghana!! The people here are very friendly and the campus is gorgeous. I haven't been to accra yet but if you saw the size of this campus you'd know why... Just a little story about how different it is... for those of you excluding a one A.D. that go to AU you know that registering for classes consists of sitting on your floor with your laptop frantically pressing the enter button in hopes of getting the last spot in your 20 person class. At the University of Ghana, registration lasts for three weeks. In that time you stand in a line outside in the sun of the given department. For departments such as the Political science, sociology and the psych depart. these lines include you and about 200 other people. I was at the political science department. I stood in the wrong line for about 45 minutes and then realized that the large mass ahead of me were people pushing to register for poli sci classes. So too joined that mass. I pushed and shoved and body slammed a girl to finally get into the 8x8 room to sign up for ONE class... only 4 to 5 more to go...
If you wonder why i come back and say i've taken the history of agriculture in Africa and Ghanain botanical studies just know it was because the line was short.... talk to you later!

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog!! Right now it's really boring causee i'm still in Maryland... But hopefully something will be posted later on! See ya later!