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The Star of Africa
(May 21 '06)
"Maybe I shouldn't, but I couldn't help it. It was that pathetic, typical Westerner in me that had to show sympathy even though they don't want sympathy, they just want a chance."
Ghana is definitely not Burkina Faso
(Mar 29 '06)
Accra is definitely not Ouagadougou, nor is it Cotonou, nor Lome. Although we spent only one single day there, both Margie and me can say that it's just more developed than any other cities we've seen ...
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from accra to akatsi
After our one night in Accra and a brief orientation to Ghana the next morning (where our instructor stressed the importance of PATIENCE ...
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Week 2
(Jan 20 '07)
First a little video for you to enjoy -
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Saturday 20th (Day 8)------------------- ...
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volunteering in Abor - week 1
(Jul 03 '06)
Sorry it's been two weeks since our last update - it has been busy and the town where we are now doing our volunteer placements (Abor) doesn't have an internet cafe, so we have had to wait until we ...
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Our first weekend trip
Since our weekends are free time for us, most volunteers use them to see other areas of Ghana. So after our "language and culture program" ended on ...
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We are entering our fourth and final week of volunteering so we thought we would give you an update of what we have been up to in our placements.
Ke ...
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Kumasi is known for two things: it is the capital of the once-mighty Ashati empire, and it has the biggest market in all of West Africa! As if ...
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After Aba House on Monday, the week only got busier! And, it had been such a long day that day I even forgot to write about my church ...
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Slave trade city
(Mar 31 '06)
"The feeling there was very strange to me, a reminder of the one I had in Oswiecim's (Aushwitz) concentration camp"
As most of you know, from the 16th to the 19th century, millions of black slaves were ...
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Recent Blogs for Ghana
From paradise to Tema
(Dec 06 '07)
"A place with all the charm of Middlesbrough (well perhaps not quite all)"
So here I am again swapping an official workstation for one in an 'interesting' Internet cafe. More about the constant comings ...
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Paradise, Ghana
(Jan 15 '03)
Burkina Faso is a pretty small country and we didn't get to see a lot
of it. We headed south from Ouaga through some national park (didn't
see any wildlife except the usual ant and mossies) to the ...
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Monkeys!
(Jul 28 '07)
Sounds. The sounds of the bugs. The monkey's chirping. Is it chirping that they make? How does one really describe
a sound? 10 pairs of footsteps on wet earth. Birds singing. Doves
cooing. Branches ...
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