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 me find a hotel and hung out there for a lil bit just waiting around for Cassie to arrive who was suck on a tro from Accra for about 8 hours…was crazy...she finally arrived at 12.30 and we spent the next 3 hours chatting and chatting till we both fell asleep from exhaustion. So was really nice we got on like a house on fire, had an amazing 'English' style breakfast of eggs, toast, jam and tea…mmmm then got a taxi to Wli Falls—highest waterfalls in Ghana. Hiked for about an hour and finally made it. was amazing, there we met three lots of US gals, two lots who were studying here, another lot who were volunteering and two Danish gals who were traveling from Benin. We got to go swimming and were literally standing under the waterfalls which really really hurt, then all these locals came who had brought a pick nick and they all stripped to their underwear and jumped in, was nice to go to a 'tourist attraction' and there be mostly local people there and not a truck load of either loud mouth Americans or English people…yes I've become very cynical of western people..lol. Going abroad and not going to a country which has succumbed to the evils of mass tourism is really amazing.

So after that we walked to the nearest road we could find and waiting for about an hour for any kind of vehicle to take us back to Hohoe. The only thing that we saw that came after an hour of nothingness was a pick up truck so we hailed that down and they were going to Hohoe so jumped in the back with a load of local guys, sat on a few cement mix bags and road for about an hour in the back…was so much fun. By this time it was getting late and me and Cassie were starving so we asked the driver where we could eat and so he actually dropped us at a hotel and said he would come back and take us to the lorry station. So we ate some good food and started walking to the station, saw the pick up truck on the way who took us the rest of the way, dropped us off and the driver put us on a tro to Akosombo to meet the English volunteers I met last weekend. After a 3 hour ride, we got there. Walked for about 15mins before hailing a tro down who actually took us right to our hotel cas we were the last people, met the group of rather drunk people…was amazing to be in the company of 9 volunteers the same age as me, in all we were 11..consistining of English, American, Dutch, Canadian and German people, was awesome talking to a load of other volunteers. The hotel was all booked up however when me and Cassie arrived so we split up and crammed 3 people to each double bed…its totally fine after a few drinks and saves so much money…2.5 pounds a night you cant go wrong.

So in the morning we had a good breakfast and all the other guys except from 2 went back to their city so we walked to the tro station and packed all of us in one trotro…was such a weird sight to see a trotro full of white people! We got dropped at a hotel where we did a boat trip on the river volta with these two German girls who just arrived which was amazing. We saw the Akosombo dam- which is a big deal to me being a geographer freek and learning aboiut it last year. And then saw this amazing buffet at the hotel but it was wayyy too expensive…was 10cedis (a fiver) for one meal…usually a meal is like 50p. So we just got a drink then started chatting to some (a lot older) German volunteers who were doctors and they actually gave us 40cedis for all of us to have the buffet…was amazing, they just said we know what its like to be living in basic conditions, volunteering and a meal like this would really make your trip…and it did!! Was the best food I've had in years it seemed! And you guys know how excited I get with food, I was like a kid in a candy store with this all you can eat buffet….without sounding too obsessed I could possibly be the highlight so far! So after feeling amazingly satisfied we heading back and went our separate ways, meeting those people was so nice, I'm gonna travel with them this weekend.

I was desperate to send some emails and I started to get the feeling I do back home where I just have a phobia of being at home sometimes…I just get really restless, everyone kows what I'm like, I spend more time round other peoples places than I do my own. Maybe it's cas I just like a constant change of scenery or I hate getting into a routine. I dunno what it is. So I just wanted to keep moving and traveling so took a tro to the city of Ho, got a taxi to an internet café, spent bout 30 mins there and realized s*** its getting dark, after reading moms email saying don't go anywhere alone after dark and then asking some guy how to get back to Vakpo, he just said you're a young foreigner on your own I suggest you stay the night in a hotel and travel tomorrow, I was like oh f*** and started to panic, so I left asap, got a taxi that some nice man paid for to take me to the tro station…he said its because "everything about me looks Ghanian….(my braids, my cowry shells earings, my beaded bracelet) and that makes me feel proud that you want to be like us Africans" which I thought was kinda sweet. So got on a tro back to Vakpo, arrived back home and was greeted by my aunties, Esther and the grannies, all gave me bug hugs and kisses and saying how worried they were getting about me, lol felt just like coming back home to Mom. Then I wanted to call her but everything shuts at around 10 so I had to find the top up ladies house to get some credit which was a fun adventure, then chatted away to mom outside the bar and got an omelet from the usual egg lady who fries em up on the street for 10p. I wish I could get a video of the street outside the bar…it's a tiny bar but with a good sound system and there's always about 4 lone guys doing some crazy dancing on the street, no girls around, just guys dancing together under a street light…they always ask me to join em but id think I'd have to have a few drinks in me before I start dancing in the middle of a road outside a bar…natz if you read this I think you'll remember the time that actually happened for a long period of time in Kingston, haha.

Right that's all for now toodlooo xxxx