Alright, so let me just say this.

I FUCKING LOVE GHANA! Honestly- this is hands down my favorite country, and I would move here in a heartbeat. I plan on getting married to Joey (I will tell you guys all about him later) and we will live in a giant roller skate shaped house on the Cape Coast beaches.

Everyone is so unbelievably nice, and I will be sad to leave this port. I might just want to do my fieldwork in Ghana for Anthro because this country is beyond amazing. I wish everyone could be here. I love the music, I love the people, the clothes, everything!

First let's start with this morning- after passing our port in Tema about 3 times (we must have had to wait for another ship to leave), we got to port. BUT while we were eating breakfast this morning- whales were in the water, close to our ship, doing flips for like 20 minutes! I know I've been on whale watches before. But come on- who can say they saw Whales... in Ghana, basically in port?!?!

Rachel (the roomie- if you haven't gotten this down by now), Chloe, Anna, and I all set out to Accra- about 30 minutes away (which takes longer due to traffic). Everyone carries things on their head, and not like small crap- we're talking like buffets of fruits and vegetables, piles of carpets, suitcases, pants, and half the people doing this also have a kid strapped to their back!

These kids are hands-down the cutest kids EVER! I definitely want a Ghanaian child to bring home. The crafts they make here are gorgeous. After going through the shops and having 389273589 locals take us around- we followed this awesome guy Adam, and Joey back to this drum shop- where we pretty much spent half the day and into the night. It was crazy chill- we seriously just played drums, and talked, and danced. They invited us to their reggae beach party tomorrow, gave us presents, and asked us to marry them.

People from Ghana are probably the most friendliest people on this planet. And insanely enough- I love their food! They have all these crazy rice concoctions- and they're all delicious. It's settled- I am moving here. I cannot imagine how great tomorrow will be, because today blew me out of the water. This has been one of the best days of my life.

If I never come back to the US- it's because I have married Joey and stayed in Ghana.

These people have a ballin' life. The group of guys we met just play drums, make drums, and sell drums- all day. I love it.

We met a girl Colleen (who is not from SAS), she used to live in Pittsburgh- and she came to Ghana a year or so ago for a trip, and just like us she stumbled upon the drummers, and played the drums, got everyone's contact info, and ended up coming back to Ghana, and now she's married to one of the drummers Prosperity! It's so cool.

Alright- I am highly anticipating tomorrow- so I will end this for now, and update later.

Oh! We said Goodbye to our interport student Nii :[ That was sad- he was such an amazing kid. I don't know how I will ever assimilate back into American culture (other than food-wise).

This experience is mind blowing.

And- Not only are we the first SAS voyage to ever go to Ghana...We are one of the largest groups of Americans to come to Ghana at one time- how sweet is that? We should go in the book of World Records!

Ahhhhh I love Ghana!

PS- Reece, if you are reading this, you are so right! I am so excited I got to go here!

And Dear Alex Randall- I got you the best effing gift ever!

:]

Much love kids.