When in Ghana...

So I have spent approximately 12 hours in Ghana already and I am already falling in love with the people and the culture!  So starting out the journey I asked the ticket lady at the KLM counter if I could get window seats the whole way, to which she intrepreted as middle seats, thanks KLM lady! Nothing like spending 10 hours on a flight to Amsterdam in the middle seat.  When I got to Amsterdam the ticket lady was kind enough to change the seat to the back of the plane which was nice of her.  So I'm walking to the back of the plane and getting seated about to relax for the 6hour flight to Ghana when I was approached by the Dutch police.  Apparently they were escorting an illegal back to Ghana and there's the chance that he was going to be loud, and wouldn't you know the dude was going to be sitting in the same aisle as me, yeah never seen that before.  In the end, they ended up moving my seat so I can be more "peaceful".

Arriving here the driver that was supposed to come pick me up actually did! Yay for not really planning!  He also invited me to his village during the Easter festival where they climb up a giant cliff and hang glide off of it, sounds awesome! Too bad I will be back stateside.  On the way to the house our car was stopped by a police man who proceeded to harrass me and teach me how to say hello how are you and I'm fine in "twi" which is one of the many African languages spoken here, that and ElWay are the biggest ones. 

When we got to the house, Cecilia, my host, had prepared a really good "jlopi-rice" dish which consisted of rice, tomatoes, carrots, and beef. It was absolutely amazing.  I was following her lead so took a tiny spoonful, I definitely could've eaten the whole bowl but then I would probably be that fat American that ate the whole families dinner!

Today I'm traveling to where I will be living for the next month in a village north of Accra.  There is promise of internet there but we will see!  In the mean time, there are tons of street food vendors everywhere, so I might be in trouble, but as long as I don't get sick by tomorrow Nate will lose the over/under on how long it'll take me before I get sick, mwahahaha.