My Arrival

So, I'm usually not a blogger, but after reading Jason and Hayling's blogs (my boyfriend's band-mates/roommates also here in Ghana) I thought it would be pretty selfish of me to have this experience and not share it. The fact that I've been asleep for the past 6 hours while they turned our electricity off and now am wide awake also helped in the decision (they use the electricity from the huge dam here..but it has barely been raining the past year or so, and every few days in the evening they may turn off the power to save energy) .so here it goes. I arrived on Sunday night after a loooong but otherwise smooth almost 24 hour journey from Ohio. My experience is a little different since I've been to Ghana before, but I'm sure this trip will be much different than the rest. I've never been here in August and it was a very cool evening, which I was pretty happy about. My dad is back in Ohio so I arrived to an almost empty house ( a relative and two others who help my dad around the house).

On Monday morning I woke up to my cousin Julian skipping work to come see me, which I was happy about since no one else was around yet..(thank goodness my dad has the internet). After Julian went back to work I decided to unpack (very proud of myself) and I realized that I always pack way too freaking much (guess I didn't learn how to pack for the overhead bin-SMDEP). Anyways, after arranging my room I went to the grocery store to get a few things and on the ride over decided that I had to get reacquainted with the forceful to say the least Ghana driving. I'm pretty sure two tro tro's were inches away from the car as I sent tensely in the passenger seat praying they didn't scratch it.

Today I went to Univ. of Ghana (Legon) to welcome Ashley, Hayling, and Jason (all UPENN fam) to Ghana..but unfortunately they weren't around oh well..they called me later so I'm sure I'll see them tomorrow. The campus is big.. I mean I do go to Ohio State..but I didn't expect the campus to be almost the same size.. I'm sure to get lost and feel like a freshman my first week..or two. Unlike walking around OSU there were nothing but black students walking around, which kind of excited me. Even though I haven't done much lately..being here just gives me this calm I'm not used to. Completely different sounds, smells, scenery...definitely nothing you could ever see in Ohio. People may look at me cause of my "American" accent, but they definitely don't look at me cause I'm black..I have to say I love the feeling of being here.

So now it's past 1 a.m. and I think that's all I want to say for now. I'll try to do this every week and I hope to give you a vision of my trip, but I can't promise I won't get tired of doing this in the next few weeks. I have orientation on Thursday, so I'm sure I'll have more interesting things to say. Pictures also to come...