First Couple of nights in Ghana,

Well its only been two days and already i have wanted to come home and through in the towel,
I arrived finaly in Ghana at 11pm, after about 20hours of traveling with almost no sleep. on arrival i was met by a 28 degree heat ( at 11 pm). Then once i had collected my bags and avoided the beggers i left the airport to meet a rep from PA. We traveled to the PA guest house where he gave me a bag of water (yes a bag). he left me to organise my self and to get some sleep as we had to be up by 3am ( it was already past 12).

when i got up i dried the gallons of swet that was dripping off me and changed. it was at this point when i was cursing the world and asking my self what the hell i was doing. at breakfast i met Lee another volenteer from Luxemburg. as we traveled to the bus station we were stopped at a check point by police who were both carring AK47's. our rep payed them off and we arrived at the bus station hassle free.

after sitting at the bus staion for an hour a luxuary bus pulled up and we climbed on. i began to think that this wasnt so bad when out rep informed us we would drive for 2.5hours rest for 50 min and the drive another 2.5 hours. wondering why we would need a rest from a bus trip i dried to fall asleep when i was thrown out my seat as we left the paved road for dirt. for the first 30 kikometers we travel over un even ground and the bus could not exceed 20mph. after almost 1.5hours we came back on to paved road how ever this changed frequently finaly we reached i rest point. (now i understand why you have to rest).

we arrived in Kumasi at 11am and met Gaby, he showed us rond the city and took us for a traditional meal where we ate rice balls in a penut sauce which we ate with our hands. Eventualy we mad it to the PA office in kumasi, As it was the meeting night all the volenteer where there and i met another 15 people from all over the world. flow a french chef had decided he would make us dinner. after watching him cook for 5 hours we sat down to a a large rice dish and 4 diffrent dishes ( a chicken dish, tuna, fish stew and quacamoli). after spending the evening with them i relaxed and was happy to be in ghana.

i then went home and met my new host mum and host dad, who were extremely welcoming and understanding that all i wanted todo was get to bed after 48 hours and less than 5 hours sleep.

This morning after trying to force some eggs in me i was taken by Gaby to the school and i was met by hundreds of kids charnting Bruni (white man, apparently its not racis). after going from one class to the next with the IT teacher ( Mr Daniel, who is also 18) and teaching some theory i realised how basic there undertsanding of ICT was and how hard it is going to be as i have to try and stick to the ghanain sylabus (which is very wrong in a few places).

Any way we shall see how it goes.

i will try and post agin next week and try and get some pics online.

Much love Mr will (what the children call me)