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Hello everyone!
I am writing to you from Cape Town, South Africa but since I still have to tell you about what I did in Ghana I'm gonna do that first! Oh and sorry It takes me forever to update my blog..as many of you know I have very limited internet on the ship so I don't go on while I'm on the boat…
Ghana is probably one of the happiest places I have ever been too (everything I experienced….I later talked to people about their Ghana experience and theirs wasn't so "happy"). Every time I would look out the window of our buses there would be people who had absolutely nothing and they still had the biggest smiles on their face. We spent 4 days and 3 nights there and had an amazing time.
Day 1
The first day we didn't have any trips planned for school so many of use decided to go to the beach. Andrew booked a bus to pick 15 of us up from the ship and head to our Hostel. It is called Big Milleys and apparently is the 2nd nicest hostel in the world…who knows if that is actually true though. When we got to Milleys it wasn't anything like I expected. There were a ton of nice huts 10 seconds from the beach and many kids running around. We spent the entire day playing soccer on the beach with locals and body surfing in the ocean. The ocean wasn't the cleanest thing I have swam in but I still went in. At night a ton more SAS kids showed up and we danced the night away enjoying live music from a local African drumming group. We had a great lobster dinner and an amazing first day and night in Ghana.
As you can see I am trying to make this as short as possible…
Day 2
The second day Ashley, Hannah, Liz and I went on a school tour to the slave dungeons and castles. We got to see 2 castles and were able to actually go in the cells and rooms where they would keep the slaves. These areas were so tiny and they crammed many slaves in them…it is horrible to even think about. We then went to lunch at a beautiful hotel right on the beach. They had a huge buffet set up for us and they let us each have our own coconuts. I wasn't a huge fan of them, which is odd because I love coconut stuff! Once our tour was over they took us back to the ship. We freshened up and went out to meet up with friends in Tema. Once we were there we realized how extremely tired we were and ended up calling it a night very early and going back to sleep.
Day 3
The Third day we went to a school and visited with the kids. It was called Morning star and it holds grades kindergarten to ninth grade. It is a private Christian school and teaches 12 subjects. They had everything from an art room to a cooking class. Many of the children I talked to said drawing was their favorite subject. Soccer is another thing that everyone loved there. We had a 9 on 9 soccer game against the kids from Morning Star and we got our butts kicked. I watched the game with my new 5th grade friends from the school who told me I looked like Barbie…must have been the hair. Literally the entire staff was watching the game along with the students and people I came with. They would play drums whenever someone scored and the little kids would run around screaming their heads off because they were so excited. It was adorable! They gave us a tour of the whole school and got to go in classes and hand out stickers and crayons and other little gifts we brought for them. When we were about to leave my friends told me they were really going to miss me and asked if I was ever coming back. It was so cute!! If I ever make it back to Ghana again I need to visit there! It was such a great day. Later that night everyone went to an American owned club in Accra and danced to American music the entire time. It was funny because there were probably only 10 locals there…the rest was SAS people.
Day 4
This was our last day in Ghana and we needed to get to an internet café….so that was our mission. We went there and spent the hour we had updating our blogs, checking emails and going on facebook. It has been nice having a break from my cell phone and Internet but not gonna lie I definitely do miss it. We then asked a cab driver to take us to a restaurant. Guess where he took us…a place called Southern Fried Chicken. Yup..how much more American can you get? We thought he would take us to an authentic Ghanaian restaurant but nope….probably the most American place in Ghana. We weren't complaining though because we had delicious pizza! We asked our waitress where we could find a grocery store. In Ghana they have super markets so they sold many things there. The food selection was very slim but we grabbed whatever we could. We had our arms full and were about to pay when we find out their credit card machine was broken. None of us had enough Cedi (the currency in Ghana) to pay for our food so we looked like complete idiots and had to bring our food back to where we got it. It was a big bummer…we then went back to the ship and spent our remaining cedi on gifts at a market right next to she ship.
My experience in Ghana was amazing to say the least. It's hard to choose favorites but I can say that I enjoyed the atmosphere of Ghana much more than Morocco. The fact that everyone was always so cheerful and happy made such a difference. We have had unforgettable experiences at these two ports and this is still the beginning!
Bye Ghana…Hello South Africa!! Just wait till you hear about everything I am doing in Cape Town! I'll update this again as soon as I can!
Alex
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