Arrival in Ghana!!!

After a very early morning on our Friday departure day, a mix-up with ticketing, a lost credit card (yikes!), a flight delay getting out of Toronto, a lengthy layover at JFK and a long 9.5 hour flight from New York to Accra we arrived in Ghana at 8:00 AM local time.

Kristina and Joanne hanging out at JFK airport

We met up with Akiba, our Ghana 6 teammate who was on the same flight from New York. All luggage made it. We picked picked up our bags, cleared customs and met our driver. for the 30 minute drive to Tema.

Welcome to Ghana

Our home away from home for the next 4 weeks will be the Kaysen's Grande Hotel. It is a 2 star hotel - quite nice actually with a swimming pool, restaurant, exercise room and night club.

Our home for the next 4 weeks



 Akiba, Kristina and I are going to meet for lunch in a few minutes. We are the first group to arrive today - our fellow team mates are all arriving over the course of the day today. We have come to know each other fairly well from the weekly phone calls but I am excited to be finally meeting everyone in person.

We've arrived in Ghana!!