So we landed in Accra today after a 10.5 hour flight (which I couldn't sleep on) and we all made it through customs and immigration. There are 25 of us in this group and we are all doing education (science, math, or art). We come from across the U.S. including Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, Washington, Iowa, Michigan, Arizona, Maryland, and of course New York. I am the youngest one in the group by about six months, but I'm used to that.
After we landed we made our way as a group towards a van that was going to take us back to our destination. Two of the volunteers were asked by men outside of our van for money and they gave it to them thinking it was for the ride... unfortunately it wasn't and they just took the money. We will be staying in the Valley View University dorm rooms for about five days before we travel to our training site for Pre-Service Training (PST) for 3 months.
The people here are so friendly and welcoming. A woman in the Dulles airport in DC was also heading to Ghana, and she saw me crying after skyping with my family for the last time. She pulled me aside and said "Do not worry because everything will be ok! Your family loves you, but you will be fine. I love you!" I'll never forget that.
The Peace Corps staff here is very welcoming as well. They know all of our names already and try to help in any way possible. They cooked us a fantastic meal which consisted of fried/seasoned rice. There was also cabbage, potato salad, watermelon and pineapple. The water here comes in little bags that you bite the corner off of in order to drink. The University is beautiful and our rooms are really nice. Two beds, table, fridge, TV, AC, toilet and a shower (which was much needed after today). We also found a little lizard friend in our room :) Well tomorrow we have breakfast at 6am and leave at 6:30 in order to get back to Accra by 9am. It's not that far but traffic is horrendous and there is absolutely no order to the road system. Side note: something interesting to see was the hundreds of people trying to sell things on the street from water to maps to anything else you could possibly think of.
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