Arrival Day

The internet at the house we're staying in is really lousy. Only one person can use it at a time, and even then, it still crashes sometimes. Hence the reason I'm writing this so late- everyone else is already asleep.


Today was a really bad day for flying apparently. I think that I may have been the only one in the group who made their original flight AND layover flight, even though they were delayed, which sucks, especially when it means you have to be one of those idiots at the airport who you see running to catch their plane. Like I said, almost every single person's flight got messed up, delayed, or cancelled, so for a good part of the day, it was only me and three other girls that had arrived. That ended up being awesome, though, because instead of staying at a hotel like we were supposed to, Dr. A, my professor, decided to rent us a HUGE house, and out of ten or so rooms, only two had separate, full size beds, and I got one of them :D The girls who showed up later and have to share a bed aren't very happy about it, and honestly, we all kind of wish we were staying at the hotel since it's so much closer to the center of town, but the house is super nice, has AC and a pool, so I have no complaints.


I know I haven't seen much of anything yet, but I love it here already. Even just driving around here is completely different from anything in the United States. I don't think the word "lane" exists here when it comes to driving, and people literally walk through the middle of the streets, inches from cars, trying to sell the most ridiculous junk. I think I literally might be the only blonde in Ghana, too, haha. I've never been called exotic-looking so many times in my life, or at all for that matter.


 I absolutely cannot wait to start exploring and even more so, to start working with the kids at BASIC on Monday. But it's time for me to go to bed, because I have no idea what time it is here, but I know that it's late.