Journey to Western Africa

We ended up leaving Cape Town about 24 hours later then we were supposed to due to high winds.  So we’ve pretty much sped the entire way to Ghana.  Luckily the Atlantic has been pretty calm so we didn’t experience any problems. 

Everyone is trying to get all their class work done (I mean we are in school right?) as the deadlines for everything are fast approaching.  No one wants to talk about the fact that we just have twenty-five days until we are in Florida. 

One evening during the trip to Ghana, we had a fancy dinner on the ship to celebrate a bunch of people’s birthday.  This is when the ship truly felt like a cruise ship.  Everything was fancy.  The silverware, glasses, dishes, and the food was delicious!  I knew there was really good food on the ship somewhere.  It was a five-course meal, for just about $5 a course, which isn’t too bad at all. 

So tomorrow we dock in Ghana.  I’m going to a Ghanaian school, which I’m very excited about, and the rest of the days I don’t have any really organized plans.  We are, however, going to a hotel about an hour from Accra, the capital, where the best suite in the hotel is just about $60 a night.  Divide that by 8 and it’s under $10 a person.  There’s beaches and bunch of other awesome things close to this hotel, which should be pretty awesome.  Seeing that where we’ll be in Ghana is few degrees north of the Equator, the beach seems like an awesome idea!