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The Other West Coast: February 2008
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The Other West Coast. Wednesday, February 27, 2008. I'm surprised it took him so long. The title of this post is supposed to be a pun on the "Outbreak Monkey" featured in the movie as the one creature with antibodies to cure a disease that's wiping out the humans left and right. Unfortunately, this encounter was a little less pleasant. I've been holding onto this story because it's such a good one, so try to read slowly and imagine what it was like to be here. You're a bad monkey! The mall is air conditi...
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The Other West Coast: June 2008
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The Other West Coast. Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Things that come in fours also remind me of my siblings, and I always self-consciously check the third thing to make sure it's up to snuff :-). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). LINKS in the chain. The Ghana blog of Natalia, photographer extraorinare. Thien Vinh's take on Ghana. From shacks to skyscrapers: My friend Melissa is in Hong Kong. Legon, Greater Accra, Ghana. You know what I know. View my complete profile.
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The Other West Coast: April 2008
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The Other West Coast. Friday, April 25, 2008. We met some of the women and children around and arranged an evening hike. We then began a quick tour of the village, followed by some rice and stew for dinner. This is a little girl pounding cassava (a really big potato like root) to make dough that is served in stew. The finished product is called fufu, which I mentioned a while back. Pounding it is very hard work, but many Ghanaians treat it as a staple and really like it. We bravely ascended a flimsy look...
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The Other West Coast: May 2008
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The Other West Coast. Thursday, May 15, 2008. The beginning of the end. I am about to go to a program dinner, the last gathering of the California Indiana crowd here in Ghana. I hope to do a few more reflections about what classes are like and what it was like to live here as well as to keep you updated on the travels as they happen. Thank you for reading. To get started, a short list of things that are different about Ghana:. Hard candies taste like cough drops. You can ask anyone for directions at any ...
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The Other West Coast: March 2008
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The Other West Coast. Monday, March 31, 2008. A few more pictures. I stole these pictures from Elaine of our first lunch with Mary. Elaine helping stir the banku (fermented corn and cassava dough served with stew). The finished banku (we had to eat all of it, and it was very good but quite filling). Mary, showing us old photographs of her family. We spent Friday touring around the village, and Senam showed us around one half of it. He knew everybody! We went for a swim and a short canoe ride upstream, an...
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The Other West Coast: Mole
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The Other West Coast. Thursday, May 8, 2008. The weekend after Cape Coast, the nature adventure continued with a trip to Mole National Park (pronounced like the spicy chocolate sauce, not the small blind earthworm-eating mammal. The park is the most famous in Ghana for elephant spotting, so put on your Australian crock-hunter or British David Attenborough accents and let's go out in to the bush mate. On a trip through the US. We hung out with them for a while and then got some lunch. After swimming we en...
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The Other West Coast: January 2008
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The Other West Coast. Thursday, January 31, 2008. PS- I can't plug in my camera here, so I'll include pictures next time. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). LINKS in the chain. The Ghana blog of Natalia, photographer extraorinare. Thien Vinh's take on Ghana. From shacks to skyscrapers: My friend Melissa is in Hong Kong. Legon, Greater Accra, Ghana. You know what I know. View my complete profile.
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The Other West Coast: Festival
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The Other West Coast. Thursday, May 8, 2008. During the next week after Wli, I ate at a really good Lebanese restaurant that made me miss the diversity of food in the Bay Area (I've gotten attached to Ghanaian food), and spent a lot of time at the International Students Hostel visiting friends there. Other than that, no real highlights. The following weekend (last weekend), I ended up in Winneba visiting my friend Senam (remember him? The blog is updated! Congratulations on sticking with it so far!
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The Other West Coast: Wli Falls and Caves
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The Other West Coast. Thursday, May 8, 2008. Wli Falls and Caves. Bordering the gazebo was this little fella, much better behaved than the parrots at home. He occasionally eeked out a "hello" even though his owners are German, but was mostly very quiet. He looked like he was being kept as well as a domestic bird in a tropical jungle could be. We took our time with some tea, coffee and bread for breakfast. They were connected by a slippery trail, mostly supported by ropes, and we did a little clever hoppi...
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The Other West Coast: Mosomagor
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The Other West Coast. Friday, April 25, 2008. We met some of the women and children around and arranged an evening hike. We then began a quick tour of the village, followed by some rice and stew for dinner. This is a little girl pounding cassava (a really big potato like root) to make dough that is served in stew. The finished product is called fufu, which I mentioned a while back. Pounding it is very hard work, but many Ghanaians treat it as a staple and really like it. We bravely ascended a flimsy look...