March 20th

Beauty and Beast was excellent! They added some African dance to the songs and had a more upbeat bass in the music than the one we are used to!
On Friday night we were supposed to meet at 11 pm to go to the stilt village with the Business School, however after waiting until 3 am with no sign of leaving we decided not to go on the trip. A few of our friends have gone to the stilt village a few weekends ago and told us how to get there and where to stay. Even though we did not go with the student organized trip we are still planning on going there on our own. We have now found the organization of student groups trips leaves a little something to be desired!
On Saturday we spent time around Accra going to different markets and we even found a smoothie shop! It was a very exciting afternoon!
We are at our halfway point for a program and I can’t believe how fast it has gone. Some friends and I have sat down and planned where we still want to go and when we should go. The rest of the weekends are mostly planned with trips or things around campus.
This weekend is still a little up in the air with planning, but we will definitely go to Sarafina - another play on campus and then hang out around Accra. The area around Accra has so many things to see from markets to antelope and bat caves! We keep hearing from other friends where they have gone in previous weekends and there is so much to see!
This semester is definitely different than anything in Morris. We go to our two lecture once a week and take notes word for word and than leave. I have not had any papers, projects, or assignments other than reading. Books are not bought here, we buy photocopied packets that are used for textbooks. Some of the articles are very outdated, for example in my Human Rights in Africa course an article stated, “Currently, in 1977 …”. We don’t know if there are not any new articles written about the topic (I highly doubt that) or if the professor just has not selected new articles. Talking to international students that were here last semester have said that the final is entirely based on the readings and not as much on the lecture notes.
Sorry these have not been more often, having fast enough internet to upload these entries is hard to come by in Africa!!