Tweet We left Saturday afternoon, our mission clear: A quick 3 hour bus ride to Aflua (the border town) and then a short walk into Lome, Togo where we would spend the night in a quaint hotel by the ocean, speaking French and eating delicious cheese and bread, listening to live music. All this and [...]
Browsing Posts in Ghana – 2008
Tweet Yesterday we were in the stadium as the Ghana “Black Stars” trounced Gabon 2-0! It was a World Cup qualifier match, and the pressure was on Ghana because last Sunday night Gabon beat them! We met with fellow Heinz student Nana Bray who is Ghanaian and has an internship here in Accra this summer, [...]
Tweet Our work at Ashesi progresses– with or without internet connectivity which has been incredibly slow, sometimes nonexistent this past week! We’ve done an organizational assessment, an analysis of alternatives, and a scope of work and work plan. Now we’re implementing our work plan. Last week we had an interesting Skype call with a man [...]
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Tweet All this week I’ve been investigating how I could take the CompTIA Security+ certification test. And I’ve run into a few disappointments. My biggest relief was finding a few testing centers in Accra. Two of them were a taxi ride away, about $3-4 Ghana cedis (GH), I estimated. So I decided to go to [...]
Tweet After lunch and our seaside entertainment, Kayt and I decided we’d go ahead and tour the slavery museum. It was about five minutes from the hotel. Directly outside of the museum were street vendors trying to sell common tourist-type souvenirs. I saw some art that looked very interesting — a man in a boat [...]
Tweet We’d planned our 3-day weekend for Cape Coast and we were ready to go. We were just excited to see another part of the country! The bus was scheduled to leave at 8am, so we got up at 5:30am…we called the day before and were told we had to arrive by 7am to purchase [...]
Tweet Wednesday was not a day Kayt and I looked forward to — it was the day Dr. Hills would leave. Neither of us had really gotten to know any CMU faculty while we were in school, but it was great getting to know Dr. Hills for the little time he was here. He was [...]
Tweet We were informed from Dr. Hills that we would have a 4-day week, due to a faculty and staff retreat taking place on Friday. (Dr. Alex Hills is a CMU faculty person who came from the U.S. to make sure our program was going ok.) Of course, we were ecstatic! We immediately started planning [...]
Tweet I met an Ashesi student named Joy over the weekend who seemed to be very friendly. Taking a taxi ride to school everyday was not what I imagined, so I worked up the courage to ask Joy if she knew of a short route to walk to school. She said yes. I liked her [...]
