This weekend we woke up super early and drove to the Volta Region.  It was a really long drive…took about 5 hours to get there.  It was hard sitting for so long because my knee has been really hurting again!  They took us to Wli waterfall, which was so beautiful! I didn’t go in the water, since I promised my mom I wouldn’t…she was worried about me possibly getting a parasite! We were supposed to go to the monkey sanctuary as well while we were here but because of time reasons, they did not take us.  I was really bummed about this. 

My first day of my statistics class was Monday morning at 730 am.  I got to class right on time and it was SO full…there were no more free desks so I had to grab a plastic chair and sit all the way in the back. It was really hard to see and hear, but I ended up getting all the notes down…I definitely learned my lesson that I need to get to class really early here, which means waking up even earlier!

  

On Tuesdays I don’t have any classes, so I slept in and then met with my director about my independent study project doing the internship at the university hospital.  I told her im interested in pediatrics and she said she had a girl last year intern in peds and she absolutely loved it.  The last 2 weeks of her internship she worked in delivery and ended up delivering a baby at the end! I immediately walked over to the hospital to meet with the director but he wasn’t there.  They told me come back tomorrow morning.  The hospital is technically right off campus so I have to cross one really busy street.  It was really scary at first but now ive gotten the hang of it.  Later this day I went to Makola market with 2 friends.  We took a tro tro there and shopped for a few hours.  This is by far my favorite market…its HUGE, and almost everyone is so friendly and wants to meet you.  I bought a small pot to cook with and a new purse since I didn’t bring one with me thinking I wouldn’t need it.  The woman I bought it from really bothered me because I was trying to bargain with her and she told me she didn’t want to go down in price because im well off.  Yes, in comparison to them I am, but back in the US I am FAR from being well off and its difficult dealing with these stereotypes that many people have here about Americans.  A lot of the time they just see us as dollar bill signs and want to rip us off, which has happened many times may I add.  I ended up getting the purse for 16 cedis when it was originally 20.  We caught a tro tro back to campus and I cooked some dinner instead of going out.  I made some pasta…they don’t really sell pasta sauce here so you have to make it yourself…which I haven’t quite figured out how to do yet…so I put a little ketchup on my spaghetti and surprisingly it was good.  I really must work on obtaining some cooking skills here..but ive learned that if you’re hungry, you’ll eat whatever you have and make it work.

Today (Wednesday) I had another 730 am class.  I woke up at 6 am to make breakfast…I discovered this warm cereal called cerevita made by nestle.  Id compare it to cream of wheat…although I think its even better.  Its so easy to make and really good! I went to my psychology of personality class and it was packed as well. Luckily I found a seat up front.  This was the first lecture and let me say the lecturing style is MUCH different here.  The professor literally reads from his notes and the students copy down what he says word for word.  Im not really fond of this kind of lecturing but I know ill just have to get used to it! After class I walked all the way over to the hospital again to meet with the director….of course he wasn’t there.  I knew I should have expected that since nothing almost ever goes planned here! They said come back after 2 and he would be there..so after lunch im going to make the trek ONCE AGAIN!