Feb. 23

Classes were very interesting last week, only one of my four classes actually met besides Twi. And Twi was only on Monday instead of Monday through Thursday. The professors just didn’t show up or class was cancelled because it was too hot. I am used to snow days and school cancellations because of wind chill not because it’s too hot! One of the classes we waited for 45 minutes for the professor to show up but instead a man walked in and started to preach about God in front of the entire class of 800 students. Some people listened while others kept going with their conversations, it was so weird to have a man start preaching in front of the class. This will be the last week of our 6 week Twi class. It has definitely been hard trying to learn a new language and to try and learn or get used to pigeon English.
On Friday night we went to a play on campus, A Diary of a Mad Black Women. It was very well attended and was very good. It was in an outdoor theater so that was very cool. The University of Ghana has an excellent drama department and has plays or shows just about every weekend. Next week will be the Vagina Monologues, the following weekend Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat and then Beauty and the Beast. Belle from Beauty and the Beast will be played by a girl from my CIEE program.
A group of 4 of us went to Shai Hills Resource Reserve for the weekend. Getting there was interesting because no one could tell us exactly what tro-tro to get on but we were able to find our way eventually with some fun stories in the end! We stayed at a hotel on Saturday night and then woke up at 5:30 to go see the animals. There was a family of baboons by the front gate of the reserve and we were able to feed them some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! We saw about 6 baboons and one of them was a baby on it’s moms back. It was so cool to see them so close, 5 feet away! We then went to the other side of the reserve so we could go to a bat cave. We hiked for about 4 km to the bat cave. When we were in the cave I asked the tour guide how far the cave goes back and he replied, “I will tell you when we are out.” It was an odd answer I thought but then moved on. When we were out of the cave he said there is a 13 foot python that lives in the cave so he didn’t want us to go back. I just wanted to know how far back the cave went not to actually go back there, lost in translation I guess!
We heard from our host mom - she will return in 2 weeks!
I love getting emails or real mail too!
My email address is lund1007@morris.umn.edu and my address is (it only costs 94 cents for a letter J ):
Clara Lundgren
c/o Kwasi Gyasi-Gyamerah
Private Mail Bag 31
University of Ghana
Legon, Ghana
West Africa