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Well, well, well....it's been quite awhile since I have updated this thing and I apologize for the delay but things have been wild over here...trips on the weekends, classes during the weekdays and other unmentionables in between..haha...well this past weekend I traveled with my group (SUNY Brockport) to Cape Coast, Ghana. It's another city that I would say is a little more urban than Accra... We left on Friday morning at 8am and got there at 12ish...we stayed at Elmina Beach Resort which is like 15 minutes from Cape Coast center. The hotel was lovely...it was the first time I had seen my entire body in weeks....I know that sounds wierd but it's crazy seeing yourself after like 4 weeks....I am getting darker by the minute and I am LOVING it....pretty soon you may not recognize me....I mean it's not a drastic change...just a tint of chocolate...anyways, we get into the hotel and it is amazing! AC never felt so good!!!! And we had our own bathroom, that was nice because i'm getting pretty sick of sharing the abandoned 3rd floor toilet that is always stained with...well i'll leave it at that...Anyways, the hotel had a nightclub, basketball court, volleyball, tennis, swimming pool, shopping areas, buffet for bfast/dinner, hair salon....yeah it was wild...we were def living large...So after we unloaded our things, we left for Elmina Castle, which is one of the slave castles that te Dutch and Portuguese used....all I can say is wow. It was quite the experience. It was emotional, just being black and seeing/hearing the struggle that our ancestors had gone through..but it was wierd because I don't think I felt the same connection that the others did. There is one other girl who is Ghanian and I think felt that connection because her ancestors may have been enslaved etc...but the rest of our group is white people...and I couldn't tell if they felt emotional because of a sense of guilt or because they genuinely felt that emotion..you know?? I don't mean to sound racist or anything...it just made me curious....I wonder how I would feel being there and not being black....or african... After that, we explored the city of Cape Coast and basically just walked around like tourists...but it was just nice to be off campus and see something different....On the way back last night, we went to Kakum National Park and I went on the Canopy Walk and wow!!!! That was one of the craziest thigns I have ever done in my life....suspended 120+ ft above ground on this shaky, wooden bridge, with my life in God's hands....haha...you should've heard me...one of my friends LeAnne was jumping and shaking the bridge and I kept yelling "Leanne stop it, I'm the first born and it's not my time to die..." But I was so proud of myself for doing it...I felt so accomplished, especially bc I am so afriad of heights. Anyways, I would love to write more but I am at the International Programs Office and they are about to get ready to close so I must go....enjoy the post and let me know what ya'll are interested in reading about!!!
Until next time (Lenora, that was for you).