Oh Africa (the theme song of the trip)

I still can’t believe I was in Africa!! It’s pretty much how I would have expected it. Women carry their children in blankets on their backs and carry heavy things on their heads. People are crazy here. They swarm us wherever we go trying to sell us random fruit or souvenirs, and they always stop and stare at us because they aren’t used to seeing white people…

The first day in Ghana we went on a 10-hour bus ride to a monkey village, so everyone slept an ungodly amount on the way there. We got to see Togo (but only the border because we couldn’t leave the country). The people that lived in the village put on a celebration for us and we got to dance with them.  All of the kids were super precious. Then in the morning we fed monkeys with bananas!! (Shout out to Erin: Thanks for uploading my pictures for me since I didn’t have time to!) We got to see the school there and all the kids put on a little presentation for us, and then we had another long bus ride to Accra, the capital, where we stayed the night. Later that night and I chipped my tooth :( But I got to go to a Ghanaian dentist to get it filled and it was only about 60 US dollars, and I got the best souvenir out of all my friends.

Wednesday a group of us went to this old slave castle where they used to keep all of the slaves before they shipped them to the Americas. It was really sad.  And after that we went to this national park and did a canopy walk which was really cool. I was the asshole jumping up and down on the little rope bridges pissing everyone off that was afraid of heights.

Thursday Greg and I went to this water village, which was a town built on stilts.  The trip was really long.  We had a 2 hour bus ride there, then a 45 minute canoe ride to the village in the pouring rain, and we only got to stay at the village for about 20 minutes. It was cool to see, but I don't think it was worth it. And then we left Ghana Thursday night.

We just crossed the intersection of the prime meridian and equator about two hours ago, so that was pretty cool. And we get to South Africa on Thursday!!

On a sidenote: Hershey uses child labor to harvest the cocoa they use in their chocolates, so don’t buy Hershey products. And write them angry letters!!