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My summer of 2003 was a very exciting one. I went to Jonquière, Quebec to learn French for 5 weeks, and with only a few days to prepare (including a party at my friend Paul's cottage in between) I was off to Accra, Ghana landing July 1 (Canada Day, and also Ghanaian Independance Day). After that, within 3 days I was back at Ottawa to complete my Economics degree, so it was a very action-packed summer.

African Adventure to Ghana - Summer 2003 (part I)

Andrew Wozniuk
2006-04-02 10:34:03

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Then we went to 3 other bars all of which were unique in their own way. One called Champs is owned by a Canadian, and catering to westerners has western like prices. There are hockey jerseys hung up it and has karaoke on Fridays (and the people that sing are really good). There was another bar called The Office (which is clever since saying you are going to "the office" sounds like you are doing work). It has a chop bar (place where you can get food) right beside it so you can always eat (even at 4am). Some of us finished the night around 4am, but the party was still in full swing, so the people here party pretty hard. One thing that I noticed was that the nightlife was more than half westerners (most of which are British volunteer workers). There are a bunch of ex-pats as well, and the age group is pretty spread out, though the majority are pretty young.

As for cultural things that I noticed: Seeing the huge number of people all over the place (especially in the centre of Accra) was a bit of a shock to me. I knew that Accra has 3.5-4 million people, but coming from a small town and less densely populated country, the density of people was quite the sight for me. Also, the posture of people here is crazy. The locals usually to carry things on their head (anything from grain, water, bread, etc) and being able to balance those big bowls/bags/baskets on their head and be able to walk up stairs and stuff without touching it is pretty impressive.

That's it for now...

Jul 6, 2004
Getting Around...

So most recently I've unpacked here at the MC house where I started my stay because I will be working here so much, it makes a lot of sense for me to just stay here. Now that I've had a chance to get around the cultural experience is growing by the day. Getting around is an adventure in itself. The cheapest method of travel is a Tro-Tro (van that acts like a bus) which costs 700 cedis or a shared car ...