I have so much to say... i don't know where to start - first of all this "internet cafe" is a shipping container with computers in it and this key board looks like someone has poo-ed on it!!! the hygiene here is what is going to test me the most! the gutters are open so the streets smell like sewage - its foul! the beaches are covered in rubbish and raw sewage and dead animals which mortified me! apart from all that, they are beautiful! there is no rubb...

10/07/10 PART 2 (having probs posting this...) The guys who runs the Childrens Home of Hope is a local guy named Elvis and he is the most inspirational person i have ever met. He has all of these wonderful community development projects on the go. I hope to get involved them as the kids come home from school at 2pm so we only have to take care of them for 3.5 hours. I love the fact that my placement is NGO based cause that gives us flexibility to start programs ...

So it took me 2.5 days to get to Cape Coast but i'm here safe and sound. When arriving in Accra day 1 i was propmtly reminded that i was in Africa aftering being hissed at, asked if i was married and approached by an eyeball-less beggar, and i say that in a complementary manner - i mean, i know thats what africa is about and i'm ok with that, apart from the eyeball thing, thats not cool. Anyway we were taken out to Cape Coast and shown around to get our bearings ...