(almost) 4 weeks in!

I still cannot believe how quickly time is flying by. As of Saturday this week I will have been here, in Ghana, 4 weeks! Since my last post I have made another trip to Cape Coast (this time with my program) 7 of us left Friday morning and stayed in Fort Patience in a little coastal town called Apam Friday night on our own and had the group pick us up on their way Saturday morning. I did the canopy walk at Kakum National Park again -- and it is just as much fun, if not more, the second time around. We wandered through the town of El Mina but did not do the tour of the castle, and we stayed at Hans Cottage. Sunday, we did the tour of Cape Coast Castle and drove back to Accra. Another week of classes has gone by, and many people are leaving in the morning for Togo (a neighboring country) to renew their visa stamps if they only got a 30-day stamp upon arrival in Accra. I plan to take it "easy" this weekend; I'm hoping to volunteer in Adenta tomorrow at a school set up by a few Rastas, Saturday I don't really have any plans so I thought maybe I would check out the Botanical Gardens on campus, and Sunday we have been invited to the church of one of our Ghanaian student guides (where he is in the music group and his father is the Pastor). We'll sit through another week of lectures and ISEP leaves for Kumasi next weekend! Very excited about that because I have no idea what that trip holds in store for us.