Landing in Accra
May 14, 2006
Arriving at the airport was no problem. The airport is small and easy to navigate, the signs are in English, and you can exchange your dollars for cedis. I, along with fellow volunteers that I met on the airplane, met with our program coordinator, Yao. It was relieving to see him waiting outside for us, since we were a pretty disshelved and antsy group, having just been dropped into a foreign land. We had our first Ghanaian meal - vegetarian fried rice with spicy chili pepper oil, and stayed at the ironically named Beverly Hills Hotel in outer Accra for the night. The next morning we were back on the road heading to the house in Woe, one of three sites that Cross-Cultural Solutions owns.
I was still in culture shock when we arrived at this hotel. We had just landed a few hours ago in Accra and were driven in the dark to this somewhat shabby and desolate place. In the morning light though, it was actually pretty pleasant. My spacious room had two full size beds, a TV, fan, bath tub and sink. They fed us a full breakfast of toast, fried eggs, jam, oranges, and coffee. The owner handed a hankerchief to each of us, wishing us a safe journey, and a caterpillar on a stick. I don't know what happened to that caterpillar.. It's definitely not the Beverly Hills Hotel IN Beverly Hills, but as I learned over 12 weeks, this was one of the nicer and more luxurious hotels we'd stay in.
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