Being home is the strangest thing. My parents are away on a cruise right now and my older brother was on a fishing trip so I got a ride home from J...

My last week in Ghana passed so quickly it's amazing. Another volunteer, Rachel and I put on a CPR clinic at the Volta Regional Hospital for the nu...

This was a fantastic place to stay for a relaxing weekend at the beach. The rooms were extremely affordable and very nice. My bill for 3 nights inc...

We spent the weekend in Kokrobite, a small fishing village 25km west of Accra. Taking tro-tro's to get there seems simple. We caught a ride with on...

A birthday in Ghana is like a birthday in no other place, at least mine wasn't! Most of the volunteers who had arrived at on the same day as me h...

5:30am - wake up 5:50am - go for run, all the while continuing to wake up 6:25am - see Francis, my stalker friend from Togo, waiting at the botto...

Janelle, Lisa and I made our way back to the Cedi Bead factory, which we went by on one of the earlier weekend trips. What we thought would be ...

I got a chance to go to the other CCS site in Woe to spend a day with a traditional bone healer. The two hour drive to Woe was nothing compared t...

We woke up early to get to a nearby town to hike Mount Adaklu, a fair sized mountain that strangely ressembled Pride Rock from the Lion King. T...

Mole National Park is a worthy visit, although slightly difficult to get to. Be prepared for a bumpy ride when you get close, but it's all worth it...

We rented bikes and biked about 5 km to Larabanga, which houses the oldest mosque in Ghana. The ride was great even though it was mid-afternoon and...

After travelling 15 hours and 53 minutes in a van, you start to wonder why the hell you're doing what you're doing. But 15 hours and 54 minutes...

I was in Ghana last summer for 2 months during the same time you're going, and I spent a bit of time in Cape Coast. Things to keep in mind when pac...

One thing I've learned for sure in my time in Ghana, is that here, I'm not Canadian, I'm not white, I'm not even Chinese... I'm China. Simply C...

The cultural market is a definite tourist trap, and you'll only see tourists wandering the stalls. But nevertheless, it is definitely an experience...

Things I've learnt so far:1. Ben the diabetic tells good pun jokes when his blood sugars low2. There is such thing as a botel - not a hotel, but ...

Visitng Cape Coast Castle was a great, and quite moving, experience. There is a great museum on the history of the castle and slave trade in Wester...

If you're desperately craving some Western food, this is the place to go. Filled with foreigners and air conditioned so you feel like you're sittin...

The Hans Cottage Botel (not quite a hotel, not quite a motel), located approximately 10km from Cape Coast, was everything you could want from a jai...

Located about an hour outside of Cape Coast, Kakum National Park is a great place to see some of the country's best rainforest. A 40m high canopy w...

If you're going to the monkey sanctuary, make sure you come early to be able to catch the monkeys. We left Ho at 5am to make sure we got there when...

Here's a place in the Volta region you simple can't miss. Wli falls is the highest waterfall in Western Africa, and the second highest in all of Af...

Click your ruby slippers together and say, "There's no place like Ho, there's no place like Ho." Though our house is astoundingly similar to a re...

I put aside my fear of flying momentarily as I scanned the plane, looking for other people that may be volunteers with CCS as well. Scan... ok. I d...

This was our last day in London before we flew down to Ghana, the afternoon of the 17th. We wanted to keep our minds busy so we didn't get overly e...

Please don't judge me by the title of this post. It's one of those things you say when you're relieved that, although you're 20 minutes late fo...

In my opinion, the best way to see London is by walking around and seeing it on foot. Of course it's great to see the big sites like Big Ben and Bu...

So we've arrived safe and sound in London after a "quick" 9 hour flight on the death machine- I mean plane. Is it really natural to be going 90...

Africa's pretty small right? Yeah about the size of Greater Vancouver. I'll just hop on a bus and see the whole thing. Here are a few suggestions...

A few months after deciding to go to Ghana and getting the O.K. from the parental units, Janelle and I still giggle like little schoolgirls...

Here comes the yam tempura. Maybe this is a good time to mention that 6 week trip to Africa. Nope. Moment passed. Now they’re talking ...