Diary Excerpt: Sat. 21st June – Green Turtle Lodge

Words do not suffice to describe the beauty of Green Turtle Lodge.
Golden beaches littered with palm trees. Rolling but not so gentle
waves. Amazing (but reasonably priced food). And to top it all off,
good people.
Couple it with an amazing hike through villages and bouldering rock
faces, and you have the best weekend I’ve had in Ghana and [...]

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Diary Excerpt: June 26th – Swedro

So the beginning of my trip to the Volta has gotten off to a real rocky start. Waited four hours for the tro tro to Swedro to fill up… which counting the four additional hours of travelling time, meant that I had spent eight hours trying to get to this forsaken town. Ended up getting [...]

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Blog Note

For those that come by the blog, it may seem as if either nothing too much is happening with me, or that I am really bad at updating the blog. Let me assure you, the latter is far more the case not to mention that the internet has been lately been fairly little spotty.
And its [...]

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Natasha and the Vienna City

So I finally met my long lost friend Natasha B. Hasnt changed one bit from what I remember. Fun loving, intelligent and still incredibly cool. She was here with her International Development Masters class from the University of Manchester, who also were good people… However I may not be too impartial… Out of 21 students [...]

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Moving In

One more thing. Today is the day I move in with my host family… Not only is it cheaper, it will also be an opportunity to live a little more like Ghanaians live… though admittedly, I am getting a fair amount of Western living as my host family is part of the upper class.

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Sunday

Today was the day I would be parting with my German friends. First Malte was heading back to his orphanage in Accra in the morning and to see his beloved Germany in Euro (note to all: my backing is for Zizou-less France) while the girls were going to go back to teaching in Swedru. But [...]

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AIDS talk at the Talent Show

Had to be a different post because the other post was getting fairly lengthy.
In the evening today, my new German friends took me along to a talent show arranged by the American Peace Corps. While there, I realized to my shock that I have a real strong distaste towards liberal American attitudes and behaviour… Can’t [...]

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Cultural Centre (again) and the Talent show

Woke up bright and early today to take a walk to Kejitya Market and the Cultural Centre… Yes I know, Ive already been there but these German people seemed to be a pretty solid bunch. Not to mention that one of them resembled a certain German girl back in Canada. I was kinda regretting not [...]

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Radio Show/ The first interns arrive

The radio show was AWESOME today! The radio host, Kukuu, of ‘Legal Digests’ is amazing… very jovial (he started talking about his adventures in the pool) but then starts to discuss legal issues in a very focused way. Today, Ernest was over half an hour late, leaving me to discuss the intricacies of adoption in [...]

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Radio Show/ The first interns arrive

The radio show was AWESOME today! The radio host, Kukuu, of ‘Legal Digests’ is amazing… very jovial (he started talking about his adventures in the pool) but then starts to discuss legal issues in a very focused way. Today, Ernest was over half an hour late, leaving me to discuss the intricacies of adoption in [...]

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