WOW I had such a fun week travelling with Cassie; I can't believe I'm leaving Ghana tomorrow, 7 weeks seems so short in comparison to other volunteers I've met who have been here 3 months - 2 years, even though my time here has been short Ghana has made a huge impression on me, I know its only the first country on my journey but I know I will be back here one day. Ghana is truly a wonderful country that I will extremely miss, I could have easily spent longer here...

wow this has been a hell of a long week! i've done so much travelling every day since friday. last weekend me and cassie wanted to go to this backpacker place called Green Turtle (an eco friendly backpacker lodge run by some english hippies --probably cornish) but didnt really estimate how long it would take to travel there! friday was spent working, then a four hour tro ride to Accra, 2 hours to get to Cassie in rush hour, 2 hour wait at the station and then 4 h...

Well I've been here over a month now and although everything seems kind of normal now and I'm over the initial culture shock there's still a few things that are still very different, I've noticed a lot more in the rural villages. When I first flew into Accra it seemed like a sprawling shanty town, now when I drive into from the countryside it seems like the most civilized place I've ever seen. A lot of things in village life are very much out in the open like wom...

Well then ive just stopped over in Accra to get to immigration to upgrade my visa so i can go to Burkino Faso so thought i'd take advantage of the civilised intrent cafes in this city. man im in the 'white' part of acrra and it is so different. theres atm machines left right and centre and im gonna pop to the supermarket alter and buy some actaul cheese!! well not real cheese, its processed but hey its cheese! had the most amazing time ever the past few days. i...

Well last weekend was too amazing not the right a whole blog about so ill start from where I left off. Well was at the internet café waiting for this gal to arrive when there was a power cut so I was thinking hmmm what the hell do I do now, so I walked down the road and started chatting to this guy called Carl and we went for like a 4 hour walk round the city and was chatting for ages.. he was really interesting and spoke really good English, then he helped ...