LAst days of Lecture

Wednesday, April 28th, 2011
I had class like usual today and after my second class I went straight to the CIEE office for a departure meeting. We were given pizza, which tasted amazing and spoke about the adjustment period back to home. Specific things that are truly going to be difficult to grow accustomed too are; specific changes in speech, the cost of living, tipping at restaurants, in taxis, and sales tax, and all of the friends that we have made here will be gone when we return to the states. Although we are all excited to get home, we are also sad to leave behind the relationships we have formed here. After the meeting we all left with sorrow in our hearts, but we soon forgot about the quick departure and went back to our lives. I got ready for dance and headed over right on time. We closed at around one and I was back in my dorm before two. I did not do anything that night except get some reading done and then go to bed.

Thursday, April 29, 2011
Today, I woke up early and headed off to work, which I was hoping would lead to my computer being repaired. Although this was just wishful thinking because no one in Ghana has knowledge about Macs, I was able to find a lock smith to make me a new key for my room. With one problem solved and about four hours wasted I continued back to the hostel. I said my goodbyes at my internship because with no computer I have no way to get any work completed. I was back in the dorm extremely early, so I got lunch and began reading for my Africa in the Global System class. I then went to dance, which helped to decrease my anxiety because I am finally beginning to understand the music and differentiate the sounds. After dance we had the intention of going to Tantra, but because it was pouring the club was closed. The next two places we hoped to go were also closed, so we ended up at Duplex which was a terrible decision. The weather was bad so standing outside was miserable, the music was horrible and hard to dance too, and the bar was jam packed with many foreigners who were all smoking making it hard to move around and breath. We left before three and I got back and went straight to bed.