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
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
posted by almo | 4:34 AM
1 Comments:
Yao Alex Atkins...
I miss you white man! I miss Ghana, I miss bang tea with dembele, I miss getting layed over and relaxing the whole way. Happy Easter to you and Faddy. ME and Bessy are really loving you and your attitude, Insha Allah history will keep repeating and we'll get stuck along the way again. God is tired.
Love and safe journey to big dave, bessy, nicholas, margy, and the rest of the exended morley clan.
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