I’ve spent a few days at work by now. Just to make future posts easier to write (for me) and easier to understand (for you), let me first explain what I’m doing here in Ghana. I am on an internship with a local non-governmental organization (henceforth called NGO). This NGO is about as grassroots as […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
From Accra to Tamale
(Wrote this a few days ago, but had no internet to publish it.) * * * * * Hello everyone! First, I want to apologize for ending my last post with “assuming they have good enough internet connection”. It is a ridiculously ignorant statement to make, just as bad as asking if we live on […]
The Ghana Challenge
Went to the Ghana High Commission the other day to get my passport back. The minute I walked out of the building (which in fact is just a large bungalow in cool Ghanaian decor), I wasted no time in flipping open my passport, and like a pudgy kindergardener who just got handed a large swirly […]
Le Paris que j’adore
It was a week before the official end date of our Nantes study abroad program. Luggage was starting to be packed, goodbye meals were being planned, and souvenirs were frantically being bought. It was a time of disorder — a confusion of both physical things and emotional things. Between the high-pitched excitement from the anticipation […]