Baboons

At Shai Hills Reserve

Banku with groundnut soup

This past week, I saw baboons ate banku, and bought a blender. I visited Shai Hills Game Reserve, just an hour out of Accra. It was a very bumpy ride there but it was definitely worth it. It was gorgeous, open fields of trees, boulders, and baboons, a good break from the beeping taxis of the city. After our mini safari ride, we went to Bush Canteen (sp?), a market on campus and I ate banku for the first time. It was very similar to fufu, except this is a ball of fermented corn dough instead of cassava. (Fufu and banku are paired with the same groundnut (peanut) soup). The spice is a bit to handle, especially when you somehow manage to splash the soup in your eye..It happened to me while eating fufu, ouchies.

All classes start this week. Or next week, I'm not quite sure. Rumors are that some professors don't show up the first week, so I'll see how that pans out. Also, I thought registering for classes at RIT was a pain, now I completely regret ever complaining. To register at the Univ of Ghana, you have to walk to the different departments (the campus is huge) and refer to a bulletin board to see what classes are being offered, and then register. I plan on visiting the departments tomorrow morning so I'll finally know what classes I'll be taking! And Since classes haven’t fully started yet, there has been a lot of down time. To occupy some time, some friends and I decided to bring Bikram to Ghana. Since its already 100 degrees outside, there was no need for a heated room so we did some yoga outside of our hostel. We had a few people mimic and laugh at us and even take a video. Also, walking around campus the other day my cool friend Gabby and I got smoothie cravings, so decided to go to the mall and buy a blender, which was probably the greatest idea since being here. Mangos in Ghana are extremely delicious, and they make wonderful smoothies.

Fun fact-my dreams have gotten crazy. Theres a malaria pill which is known to have this side effect, but I'm pretty sure I chose the medication which did not have this effect. Regardless, I'd like to blame my weird, vivid dreams on my malaria pills because that just makes sense. When I say vivid, I mean vivid. I wake up every morning confused to where I am because the dreams feel so real.