I arrived in Accra, Ghana!

Thursday, August 12

The plane ride was mostly uneventful since I slept the whole way. While waiting to board my flight to Ghana, there was a little girl (probably 2 years old) who came up to me, gave me a big smile and put her hand out. I thought she wanted to shake my hand, but she put her hand on mine and then switched so my hand was on top of hers. I don’t know if she was trying to get me to play a game, but she was super cute!

So far I have learned that Africans are friendly, but very straightforward! For instance, I put my seat back only to be banged hard several times and told (very politely) by the man behind me that it was too far! The girl next to me did the same thing to the man in front of her. I met two girls, Monica and Anna, on the plane and we became little buddies. We went through customs together, waited for our bags and Anna even gave a lady who pushed me “attitude” (think: Oh no you didn't!).

I’m staying at the guest house (hotel) at the University of Ghana. After checking into my room and trying unsuccessfully to use the internet, I slumped over in the chair in my room and tried to stay awake. I made it to about 8pm, at which point, I eyed my bed and considered whether it was worth it to try to put up the mosquito net. After a brief argument in my head about whether or not to put it up (my mom’s voice played the role of telling me "it’ll take two minutes, so get off your butt and do it!"), my mom won and I jerry rigged up the mosquito net. I’m hoping I can stay awake all the way until 9pm tomorrow night!