Ada – Day one

Leave Accra – 9:00 on a good nights sleep, and have finished packing in the morning prior to leaving Gills mansion in North Laegon.

Get a taxi on the road, he puts my bike, banjo and 2 bags into his little car and takes to

Novetell Station - by 9:30 becaues it is a Sunday and the terrific is good. Put all things on tro, tip some guys who helped you without asking for help,k but now they want money, fairly tipical hustling scheme. Get on with a baged coffee and tea headed for

Ada – 11:30 finish the trip and call Kofi, the head of radio Ada, who brings me to my new home

Sunset Beach Resort – 12:00 a hotel near the beach, about 1 minuets walk from the ocean. They have given me a good deal to stay here for 120 Canadian dollars per month, with access to their kitchen, and nice people helping me out.

12:00-15:00 –gill leaves after a little walk and some beer and chicken. She had come down for a few hours just to help me move out with all of my things. Thanks Gill.

From then on in I settled into my new home, sunset beach hotel. Set up some things and bathed with some weird solution called detol, the stuff the hotel gave me and told me to try, in buckets. I haven’t felt so clean in a while, were they trying to tell me I looked dirty. After all the trip to the north was very dusty. Weird stuff. But they say that I should have water by “the end of the week”.

Day three

It is morning now, I am about to get on my bike to go to the station again. The first day was very nice, I met the youth that I am teaching, they are very enthusiastic, and really receptive to y teaching, which is a plus in any teaching situation. So times are good. But I feeling a little odd here, just with the change, getting settled in, using the kitchen here at Sunset beach, and metting lots of new people, all of whom are very, very nice. I miss my friends from school that I have relied on for companionship for the last 4 months and I also miss home now too, with the change, after missing chirsmas and hearing about the festive times. But all in all tings are good. So off I go again, to see what might come about this time, and also, I do enjoy my bike ride to work, 30 minutes in the morning on a bike can set my day right any day. So wish me luck, as I hope you are all happy in your lives now.

Day Five

A good weeks work here at the cool African Coast. I got new students every day and we made very good progress for one week. These youths are all brilliant. But I got my favorite student yesterday, a older man who is a teacher. He wants to use to computer for his work and his life, while the others just want to lean. We started from step one, how to double click, how to put the comuter together, it was all very interesting for me, as I stumbled around workds and phases attempting to describe things that I never really learned, but more figured out as I am a chiold of the computer age. Very interesting.

The days keep passing here, and the sea air keeps me relaxed, as well as the relaxed working atmpsher. I get to sit out side all day and talk to interested people about many things more than my mandated computer training.

I have been swimming every day and it is nice to be cooking again. I am going to try to go to a slightly bigger town a and I wish you all the best. Go leafs go.

PEACE

ALEX

*Well I've ocme oto accra for some provisions and the internet so here is another instalment. I am going to try to keep up on this thing, but I don't have regular adccess so it might not be to often, but I guess you guys are used to that by now. Thanks for reading.
PEACE
ALEX

Home Again, here in Accra, after a nice long trip through Mali Burkina and Ghana. Our travels never stopped to be so fun and interesting. After we left Bamako we moved towards Bobo in Burkina Faso. We had to take a unexpected stop over night in a bus station, but the bus man felt that we should be able to sleep on the bus because we had been told we would make it that day (not the last time this happened). But the next morning sure enough we made it over the boarder and settled in hotel Zion, a cheep nice hotel that was owned by a Rasta and his French wife, and where there was music every night. ME and sam were able to play a small concert to some poeplewho came into to eat. I played bass, same on guitar and the house drummer, a talented and well trained guy name jean. IT was very fun, I enjoyed this a lot.
From their we decided to head home. A good idea because we thought that 3 days would be enough to make the 800 or more Kilometre journey, but no, the first day we couldn’t leave because all the buses leave in the morning and we were too late. The next day they said we would be in kumasi at 8 the next morning. But we were held up again in Hamele, which turned out to be okay but we were a little late on returning to accra. And then we got on our bus, a rickety old thing with a terrible driver, packed over full. The window ext to me would not close and the dust was over powering. At 3 in the morning, we are stropped at the top of a hill, the drivers apprentice accidentally hits the bus into gear and it starts rolling down the hill slowly at first, then faster and faster, the guy eventually figures out how to stop the bus but not before the whole bus is screaming “help me jesus’ and things like that. We eventually come to a stop and the entire bus clears out in 10 seconds. Quite a midnight adventure, but we all get back on after some people wanted to lynch the poor mate who’d caused the whole problem.

Then after that we got a nice bus into accra and the next day we had our orientation and in 2 days I move to ada to start work on the following Monday, And life goes on.
Sam has left and things are back to normal, unfortunately, thanks Sammy for a nice trip.

I wish you all the best, peace and love

Alex Morley