Week 3

Well, it's about 4am here in Ghana and I'm laying awake with a headache, stuffy nose, and just crazy pressure in my head.  I've managed to stay fairly healthy up until this point, and of all the sicknesses I could have gotten here I honestly didn't expect my first one to be a head cold. Regardless, I thought I'd take the time to post a blog since the wifi is remarkably good when I'm one of the only ones on it.

This past weekend I went to Kumasi, which was fun but was very similar to Accra in that it's a busy city. Honestly my favorite part of the whole trip was petting a baby elephant at the zoo. It kept holding my hand with its trunk and it was just the best experience ever. I also was able to feed monkeys, however the monkeys seemed to get a bit impatient with us and decided throwing their bodily waste at us was a fabulous idea. I luckily did not get hit, but two people in my group did an we spent the next few minutes buying water and covering them with hand sanitizer. It was absolutely hilarious, and everyone was a good sport about it.

On another note, I've been a bit frustrated with school here. It's much slower paced and directions for assignments are always very vague. I've kind of just taken an attitude of "try your best and hope for the best". It's really all any of us international students can do. I swear it's like there's this non verbal telepathic communication between the Ghanaian students and the professors, somehow they always know what's going on and know exactly where to get the reading material. It blows my mind. 

Other than what I've mentioned I feel like not much else is new. I'm still adjusting and dealing with the effects of a new culture, but mostly I just try to laugh off the small annoyances. It's all you really can do. I'm hoping to have some more to write in the week to come!