With my weekend off 4 of my housemates and I traveled into the Western Region to visit Nzulezu, a stilt village near Beyin. At 6:30am we made our way to the tro-tro station to start the fisrt leg of our journey. Tro-Tros are the unofficial bus system in Ghana and are usually shabby vans that 12 people stuff into for longer trips through Ghana. Two long, hot tro-tro rides later the girls and I made it to the middle of nowhere town of Beyin. The driver took us ...

Much to my frustration Ghanaian time was in full swing at the TV station today. I literally waited around all day. At first I waited to use Edwin's computer to install the new editing system so I could actually start working on our show again. Then I waited 2 hours for the editing system to install. Literally 3 minutes after the installation was complete the power went out and since Edwin's computer battery is not existent, so did his computer. So I waited s...

As they say, "everything that can go wrong will go wrong." And believe me, it has. My computer, which I had repaired two weeks before I came, crashed on Monday. After numerous tag team phone calls to the computer place in the US I was told that my harddrive was full and I needed to connect it to someone else's computer to drag files off. Edwin and I searched for 3 hours around Cape Coast and finally found the type of cord that I needed only to find out that m...

With my day off two of the girls and I went to visit Elmina castle. It's about 20 minutes from Cape Coast and sits on a peninsula in Elmina, a colorful fishing town that has changed colonial hands multiple times over the centuries. Considering what I paid to go on the castle tour it was short and not very informative, but it didn't change how powerful the place was. Elmina castle, originally built by the Portuguese and later taken over by the Dutch, was the bi...

The TV station just got Internet, so I am killing some time since I can't edit until Edwin arrives. He was supposed to be here at 9:30 and it's 10:30 now. I'm not surprised though because he's been an hour late for the past 3 days. That's how time works in Ghana: if you're told to meet someone at a certain time add at least an hour to it, and you'll still show up before them. I'm very time oriented, so I'm having a hard time with it. And TV is all about de...