I have my travel visa. I’ve been inoculated against typhoid and yellow fever and have a bottle full of malaria pills. My wardrobe has been appropriately stocked with slacks and colored shirts. I can introduce myself in Twi. On one hand, I feel ready to commence my summer internship with the Media in Ghana program. Read More …
Today marks the end of the second week of my internship at Citi FM. Although it has only been two weeks, it feels as though I have been there forever. It was not an easy start to the internship, but after the past few weeks I have become acclimated to the environment and feel like Read More …
Internships, new friends and weekend adventures aside, one of my favorite parts of this trip has definitely been the food. A great deal of my life revolves around food. My family runs the only certified organic goat dairy in all of Oregon (Fraga Farmstead Creamery, in case you’re wondering *winkwink*) and throughout high school I Read More …
Today wrapped up the last day of my internship. I know I learned a lot about what ICT (Information Communication and Technology) is and I also learned more about what Penplusbytes is and how their company trains journalists in their New Media Hub. I think that going to meetings and conferences about things related to Read More …
I began my final week in Ghana with a weekend getaway to the Volta region. The bustling streets of Accra were soon replaced with vast expanses of trees as we made our way to the Wli Waterfall, the tallest waterfall in West Africa. The air felt cool and refreshing as we trekked along the 40-minute Read More …
This past week it seems our media companies have laid on the work as we only have one week left. Looking into personal research Enya and I visited Agbogbloshie. On the first day of our trip we drove through this market. It was an overwhelming experience for me because I we were basically in a tour Read More …
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Many people think that slavery is a thing of the past, yet it is still happening around the world today. The past weekend was a somber reminder of what used to happen at slave forts in Ghana. Both of the forts we visited, Cape Coast and Elmina, had this feeling of uneasiness, like the ghosts Read More …
So Group B has been up to some amazing things lately, so many that combined with the somewhat unreliable internet, we have a back up of blog posts waiting. Here are some photograph teasers of some of what is to come…
…we might have more pictures of each other taking pictures than pictures of Ghana itself.
A few days after arriving in Accra we met the freshest, hippest Ghanaian to help guide us along this emotional ride. I wasn’t entirely sure how it happened. Bjorn and Rob were doing some spontaneous jig, and out of nowhere Sonny starts breaking it down, his hips grooving side to side as he rubs his Read More …