More pics

Rest stop for lunch on our drive to Sunyani

Typical house we saw on the trip. Cement brick walls and sheet metal roof, this one didn't have a cement wall around the property like most did.

Every town has multiple churches and you can see signs for them everywhere.

Rick and Ken, two of the faculty on the trip, checking out some pottery on the roadside.

Some kids waving at our bus as we were stopped in traffic. Our bus felt like a traveling aquarium, Ghanaians pointing and waving at the bus full of white people

View from the front the bus, the streets in towns are crazy busy. People, bikes, taxis, goats everywhere

Most the roadsides are covered in signs and construction is everywhere cause most times it takes years to finish

The Presidents Palace. Built to look like a throne from the Ashanti People

First morning in Ghana

The entrance to our hotel in Accra

My hotel room, last hot water shower for one month here

The Canada Team

Well... I'm Back

Sorry for the lack of contact on my blog,

after we got to Sunyani reliable internet was next to impossible to find and I was unable to upload entries and pics. But in the next few days I'm going to upload all my best photos from my trip so everyone can see some of what I saw.

Glad to be back and can't wait to see everyone

Suryani!!

Hello, estesen (how are you in twi)

What can I say, the bus ride, while uncomfortable, was amazing. The country side was remarkable, the people were so nice and good humored. We got fruit off roadside vendors, mangos, pineapples, and watermelon (so good).

When we finally arrived in suryani we immediately went into a meeting with our ghanaian team for introductions. They were so happy to see us and welcoming. Each conversation was like a mini lesson in twi as we canadians tried to use the twi we learned on the way. They helped us learn their campus, show us laces to shop and tonight we are going to a concert.

Sorry only got a little time to post today, but I am having an amazing time here, and it's only been two days I can't wait. Oh yeah, and I'm going to a soccer game tomorrow!!

Have a good trip to mexico my friends, enjoy the cool weather cause I'm still melting

Trev

ACCRA!!

hello everyone,

i survived my first flight anywhere and am now melting in ghana! Wow this place is amazing. people everywhere, car horns honking all the time, the heat, the welcoming people that i've met so far, it's everything that I've hoped and more.

The flights were uneventful. Basically I flew from vancouver to calgary to amsterdam to accra with no sleep, watched movies and played video games for the whole time. Yes I was uncomfortable but it was no big deal. Airport to airport the scenery didn't seem to change till we got to Accra. The airport was nothing modern and was only slightly cooler than outside. Ghana has some strange customs rules that I still have no idea what they were but I got through it all.

Outside the airport was quite an experience though. As soon as we exited, people just came right over, trying to give us taxi rides, carry our luggage, sell us stuff. I know that they are just trying to make money but it kiinda freaked me out. Think of the pushiest homeless guy trying to get your change and then triple it and you might be close. How far away from home I was sunk in really quick.

Spent my first full day here in the capital, Accra, getting used to the climate and getting my bearings. We visited an art museum/gallery and spent some time relaxing at a local resort's pool. Swam for the first time in the atlantic ocean and witnessed a storm come in off the coast. Super heavy rain made our pool time extra fun and confused the resort staff. They all went running and we just kept on playing frisbee in the pool. It rained hard but it was still warm which made it an incredible experience.

I tried to upload some pics but the internet is really slow cause of the storm so I'll have to post them later.

10 hour bus ride to Suryani tomorrow, today was the one and only day that will be like a vacation. The rest will be working and learning.

So excited and sweaty, trev

Blog is up!!

Finally got my blog up,

this is where I wil be keeping everyone back home up to date as to what I'm doing while in Ghana.

I'll do my best to post pics here, facebook makes photos look terrible so this is a way around that.

Fly out on moday the 26th and head to Vancouver tomorrow, getting a bit nervous/excited, this is gonna be my first flight anywhere! so I'm not sure what to expect. Feeling about the same as before my first marathon. Sean, why did I let you talk me into this?!! lol

Thanks to everyone who reads and comments on my posts, it'll mean a lot to hear from everyone while I'm in africa.

trev