Just a quick message as I dont know how long I have left on the internet. Me and mum are now in Elmina, which is a small town ont he coast of Ghana. We spent a day in Accra and looked round but it was very big and busy. Elmina and cape coast are smaller and the people are freindlier. We went to a Rain Forest today and walked through the canopy walks through the tree tops. We also visted some Slave Castles, which were upsetting. Our taxi driver got arreste...

Hi! Sorry it has been a while, spent an hour last week on the internet but this page wouldn't load. The weekend before last I took a day trip with Hannah to a village that makes beads out of Bauxite, the whole village makes them. They showed us how they make them then we had a go and it was extremely difficult! It takes about 3 days to make a necklace! They mine their own rocks, then cut them into small circles, then drill a hole, then thread them, then sand...

Hello! I have finally got a few of my own pictures onto the internet. This one is of my friend Debbie trying to get off "umbrella rock". Some local boys had made the ladder out of bamboo, and cahred us 50p to climb up. Last weekend the 5 of us that live together travelled to see 2 waterfalls, which were amazing, and went on a tough walk scrambling over rocks to get to umbrella rock. We stayed in a little town called Aburi, where we visited the bot...

Hello! I can't belive it's been only a week, it feels like ages. I am in Nkawkaw now (furtehr north than shown on the map), got here fine on Tuesday. It took most of the day, about 4 hours, but it wasn't a tro tro like I was expecting, it was a fancy air conditioned bus! didn't make the roads much less bumpy though. The hospital is up the mountain in Atibie. It is alot cooler here which is good but has rained most days (though apparently doesn't normally r...

Hi!! It is my second day in Accra (the capital), leave to spend the day on the bus tomorrow to get to the hospital. I don't know whether there will be internet there so might not be able to write for a while! Slept well on a matress on the floor in Eric's house. Then spent the day with Jane trying to change our traveller4s cheques and buy a phone. (mine won't work and it is blocked to put a new sim card in - if anyone can get me a code to unblock it let me ...