Hello my name is Amina Pratt and I
am a rising senior majoring in biotechnology and am currently studying abroad
in Ghana where I will be interning at a local women’s organization. I arrived
in Accra, Ghana on May 20th around 8:30 pm. As soon as I stepped off the plane,
and I mean stepped off like took the stairs, I was greeted by the heat and
humidity of a country that experiences a relatively “tropical climate”. After
waiting for 5 hours, ok it was more like 1 hour but it felt longer, we finally
made it through customs gathered our belongings, met up with our professor and
went to dinner.
Dinner was interesting to say the least;
because it was so late the restaurant didn’t have a lot of options that were
still available, so I ended up getting Chinese food. Yes Chinese food, there is
actually a lot of that here and it wasn’t half bad. After the restaurant our
professor revealed to us that we would not be staying at the location we originally
thought and would be living in a bungalow…. whatever that is.
When we arrived at the house we
realized that a bungalow basically meant a ranch house, Oh yeah and they were
fixing the drains outside our house, which meant we had to walk a plank... Yep
a plank and carry our luggage on it just to get into our house, this was
definitely an interesting experience.
After finally getting inside the
house we all took a look around, picked our rooms and then realized that we had
no air conditioning, we definitely would not be living in the lap of luxury but
at least we have fans. Overall Ghana isn’t so bad if you can get use to the
random black outs, the bugs and lizards then come on over Lol.
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