Through My Eyes

Mrs. Dalimonte's class,

Welcome to my world in Ghana! Below are some sights that I see every day...enjoy!


This is my favorite fruit stand, and a huge staple of my diet here in Ghana. Ya and Linda (mother and daughter) run the fruit stand together. Each day, I usually buy 1 banana (.10), 2 oranges (.20), a thick slice of watermelon (.50), and a bag of pineapple (.20).


This is a shot of the night market. As you can see from "My Redeemer Hair Salon", most of the stalls have religious titles, such as "God's Grace Fruit Stand", etc. In the night market, you can get anything including, but not limited to: toilet paper, Ghanaian chocolate, vegetable oil, fruit, eggs, fufu, banku, dishes, sugar, etc. It is our main food source.


ISH 2!!! Outside view of our dorm/hostel.


Here is a shot of the front desk in our hostel. We LOVE everyone who works at the front desk and each "porter" knows everyone's name that lives in ISH 2. We are always greeted with friendly smiles and Twi expressions when we leave and enter our dorm.


This is an inside view of ISH 2. The lawns are maintained very nicely! Our room is on the second floor, to the right of this photo. Kenz and I live in room 127.


This is our bathroom! It is co-ed, meaning both males and females share it. We have three sinks, three toilets, and three showers, although it is miraculous when all of them actually work!


This is a view of our hall from our room, it faces the night market.


This is our room! Yes, McKenzie and I pushed our beds together, as our room has somehow officially turned into the "Movie/let's all watch LOST around a 5-inch DVD screen" room! And yes, we have matching Carolina blankets and we love them. We hang our towels on a line to dry...although nothing ever completely dries (with the crazy humidity) in Africa.


This is an inside view of a tro-tro! They get so crowded, hot, and smelly, but are a cheap way to travel across Ghana! A normal tro-tro ride, for us, is about 20-30 minutes and costs about 40 pesewas (about 40 cents).


This is the yellow tro-tro we took to Osu the other day!


This is the "tro-tro" line in front of the main gates of our University. I wish you could experience the madness and chaos firsthand, but just imagine scratchy Ghanaian voices yelling, "Circle, Circle, Circle" or "Medina, Medina". The "mate" is the guy who yells the direction/place the tro-tro is going, he steps out of the tro-tro, finds people to ride it, then collects the fares from each rider.


This is the route I take to my African drumming class each week! We sit on wooden benches and play outside in an area called the "Shrine" under these beautiful trees!

I hope that you now have a better "picture" of where I live and what I see each day here in Africa. Feel free to send/ask any questions that you might have about the environment, surroundings, buildings, and facilities here!