We are finally in Ghana! Chad and I spend about 16 hours in the air today. He refused to let me sleep on our flight to DC (so I could sleep on the flight to Ghana) and it turned out he was right! I probably slept for 6 of the 10 hour flight. He slept for an hour or so. Booooo.
Duffy and a friend were waiting for us when we arrived in Accra. We took a cab to the tro-tro station and waited for 45 minutes or so until the tro-tro was full. (A tro-tro station has a bunch of vans that they cram as many people as possible in.) Two hours, many security check points, and some bread mummies later we arrived in Anloga! Note from Chad: They are actually bread zombies, and not really zombies at all but just people with bread who chase after your tro-tro and try to sell them to you
These are the fields the people in Anloga work. My photography was pretty poor so I had to photoshop this a bunch. This is pretty close to how it looked!
We got settled in our temporary home and went to town to get some light bulbs. Unfortunately Chad and I are the whitest of the white so it will be impossible to blend in. Everyone stared. People didn’t seem too friendly but when you say “good evening” they warm up pretty fast! The children followed us around, but didn’t say much. It was pretty cute.
Our house is pretty big (pictures to come). Chad, Duffy, and I each have our own rooms for now. Bridget (a senior in high school) cooked us an amazing dinner. She made us fried chicken and rice. The rice had tomato, red curry, garlic, and onion. It was soooooooo spicy (but good)! I will have to get used to it.
It is beautiful here. Lots of green and sand everywhere. We have a mango and many coconut trees outside the house. Can’t wait until they are ripe! Big day tomorrow. More to come =]