GHANA!!!

Hello everyone,
Akwaaba to my blog. ha. I don't know if that would be a proper use of the word welcome in Twi but I thought I would give it a shot. It's a little before 4:30 in the afternoon right now and I'm still getting used to the time change between here and Colorado/Wyoming -- I've adjusted to timing/life here but it's still strange to think that when it's 4:30pm here it's only 10:30am there. I can't believe I've been here for almost a whole week! I arrived early in the afternoon last Saturday and now Thursday is most of the way over. I'm loving it here :) life is very laid back and slow paced (but of course school hasn't started yet). They have a saying on campus here in Legon that "the Americans' bring their watch but we (Ghanaians) have the time." The exchange students have designated GMT (our time zone) as Ghanaian Man Time so far this week we have come to expect almost everything to happen at least a half hour to an hour later than originally planned.
The weather has been great. Not too hot yet because it's still the "rainy" season, although it hasn't rained much - cloudy almost every day. We had some significant sun on Tuesday when we did the first part of our campus tour [by the way - this campus is gigantic!! everything is very spread out] which was nice but otherwise we haven't really seen the sun. The temperature has been in the 70s and 80s though.
Some other international students were already here in the hostel before I arrived, but the rest of my group arrived on Monday (mostly - a couple on Sunday and a couple Tuesday and Wednesday). Everyone is very nice. Our program consists of 21 or so students from the States and 1 girl from Mexico but we are living with groups from Germany, Canada, South Korea, and several groups from specific schools in the States.
Food this week has mostly consisted of oatmeal/porridge, bread and butter, tea, pineapple juice, and sometimes egg for breakfast; rice, chicken, sometimes noodles, sometimes beans, and sometimes plantains for lunch and dinner.
I'm in an internet cafe in my hostel right now but I'm planning on paying for wireless internet tonight to be able to use Skype on my little netbook (laptop). I do have a cell phone now and my number is 0273989941. Otherwise my main forms of communication will be this blog, facebook, and occassionally Skype. Skype will be the most difficult to use on a regular basis due to the time change but we can work something out if it's something that would be better for some of you.

That's all I have time for now but I may post again soon :)