it is friday morlning and the weekend trip I have just finished is under way. I meet my 4 travel companions at campus and se beging heading for the State Transport Companies(STC) bus station which takes you to Cape coast. YOu see here the is not jsut one bus station therre are many, and depending on where you want to go, you go to different places in Accra. We get stuck in thick traffic on the two lane rd out of legon and think that we muight miss our bus. So we get to 'circle' (Kwame Nkrumah Cirlce) and some helpful friends who we've just met takes to a cab and we ask to go to STC station. He takes us for a very reasonable price to a bus station. We pat 3$ for a 3 hour bus trip and leave out, amazingly right on schedual (ish). The road is very good in parts, but some parts there are detours due to constuction and we must drive at 10 or 15 KM/h. We pass many differnet types of house on the raod, we see mud huts with thatched roofs, we see broken down block houses that are inhabited by poor people, we see huge mansions a top the hills that role on and on in the distance.
When we arrive in Cape coast the air is realxed and the people are nice, they do not hassel us the same as people in accra... But on arrival we find out that the bus we took was not STC but that the taxi drive took us to a better cheeper bus station... it is great howe thigns are working out. We also meet richard, a beach hussler who is our age adn he 'escorts' us around for the whole weekend, (unasked). That night we sit on top of our cheep hostle (30 000 CEDI, 3$ ) and drink some beers and eat a lovely dinner. After the at we go out andLOOK AT STUFF around town, it is beautiful, the old castles are depressing but beuatiful and the architecture in this town is amazing, with very much colonial influnce and old buildings left from the 500 that cape coast was the colonial administrative centre. The kids all run to us and we talk to everyone, even a game of hacky sack get a lot attentin and we play in a huge circle.
That night I meet a man and we have a two hour conversation (sing along) to bob marley lyrics, it was very deep for us both...
The next day we contiune on route to our main estination, the Kakum natioanl park, which was okay, but not the highlight of the weekend. ON our way home we are picked up by a pick up truck and ried back to town in the truck bed.
OUr trip was very fun and I feel like I know a little more about ghana now. I am learning to intereact beter with people as I become more comfortable and used to the differdnt culutral ways of conversation and meeting people.
I am feeling very good today and am looking forward to the rest of my time as I continue to learn in this great country.
I learned on this trip that everywhere you go here, people will help you, even if they do not do what you asked, you get where you are giong adn make many friends en route...
PEACE and LOVE
ALEX
When we arrive in Cape coast the air is realxed and the people are nice, they do not hassel us the same as people in accra... But on arrival we find out that the bus we took was not STC but that the taxi drive took us to a better cheeper bus station... it is great howe thigns are working out. We also meet richard, a beach hussler who is our age adn he 'escorts' us around for the whole weekend, (unasked). That night we sit on top of our cheep hostle (30 000 CEDI, 3$ ) and drink some beers and eat a lovely dinner. After the at we go out andLOOK AT STUFF around town, it is beautiful, the old castles are depressing but beuatiful and the architecture in this town is amazing, with very much colonial influnce and old buildings left from the 500 that cape coast was the colonial administrative centre. The kids all run to us and we talk to everyone, even a game of hacky sack get a lot attentin and we play in a huge circle.
That night I meet a man and we have a two hour conversation (sing along) to bob marley lyrics, it was very deep for us both...
The next day we contiune on route to our main estination, the Kakum natioanl park, which was okay, but not the highlight of the weekend. ON our way home we are picked up by a pick up truck and ried back to town in the truck bed.
OUr trip was very fun and I feel like I know a little more about ghana now. I am learning to intereact beter with people as I become more comfortable and used to the differdnt culutral ways of conversation and meeting people.
I am feeling very good today and am looking forward to the rest of my time as I continue to learn in this great country.
I learned on this trip that everywhere you go here, people will help you, even if they do not do what you asked, you get where you are giong adn make many friends en route...
PEACE and LOVE
ALEX
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