arrived

hey everyone :)
i'm in akwapim now and fairly settled in after an exhausting day yesterday!

after my 28 hours of flying and transitting, i met Yemi who works for projects abroad, at the airport. He was very friendly. We had to wait awhile for the driver as he was still at the office when Yemi rang him. luckily the office was only 5 minutes away! I went straight from that car to another at the office with 3 other volunteers. They were doing various projects in the area but none were staying with my host family.

It is an amazing and eye-opening drive to the Akuapem Hills. The first thing that I did not expect was the density in Accra and Akuapem. There are a lot of sellers on the street selling everything from world cup merch to plantan crisps and toothpaste. We drove for a little over 2 hours, going from the office to each volunteer's house to drop their bags off, and from there we then went to Koforidua with Gifty, another PA employee to exchange money and see where we can use credit and debit cards. During our tro journey to Koff, it started raining and didn't stop until we were in a tro returning. It takes about 40 minuts to travel to Koff but in a tro, a little over an hour because of stopping for people and there don't go very fast. At Koff, Gifty let us try a dish called wachi. It was delicious! Its rice and beans with a spicy pepper sauce.

So after all that and Matisse (a volunteer) and i about to fall asleep standing, we finally returned home. To my exhausted amazement, most of the neighbourhood was in our lounge room watching the football (Ghana v Uraguay. I managed to stay awake for that. It was an intense game, with so much passion in the room.

This morning I woke up to a bell at 4.30 am, followed by several roosters. and then after a few minutes children shouting and playing. I slept in until 9 am and had a shower (this involves filling up a bucket and taking it to the shower room to bath). I havent quite mastered it. Then a have breakfast which was pineapple and jam on bread (very tasty bread). I met Comfort (host mother), and Linda (18), Matilda (12) and Josephine (7) who all live there, i think. I've been learning the basics of twi like greetings etc. Linda is a very good teacher. She showed me around the neighbourhood, to the school ill be working at and the junction where you catch tros.

We taken some photos, Matilda is an amazing photographer :P but i will upload them later! Hope you all are well and safe

peace and love.