Day 3 - Accra

Esenam took a taxi from her home to our hotel. We hopped in and went to breakfast with her. She recommended a little spot by her school, Melting Moments. It was the perfect start to our day. I had chocolate chip waffles and ordered some pastries for the road. We then headed over to her school. She attends Ashesi, a small private university in Accra. We met the Dean of Students then sat in on her Intro to Finance Class. The Professor lectured much slower than I am used to, but it was a nice change. The students actually had time to write down the information on the power point, ask questions, and work out the problems on the board. After class we stopped by Esenam’s home to drop off our belongings before heading to lunch and back to Oxford Street to shop. Esenam’s mother runs a school on their property and with school being in session, we decided to stop by a classroom and introduce ourselves. We were introduced by her mother to a third grade class. I was introduced as Auntie Kayla and the students replied, “Hi, Auntie Kayla!” It was so proper and nice. There were six students in the class and one teacher. They had just finished lunch and were eager to meet us. We had an informal question-answer session. The children asked questions like, “Do you eat a lot of cheese pizza in America?” and “Do you have Alps?” One child asked how old we are then followed that by asking what year were we born in. The children were so bright, well-behaved and polite. After meeting with the class for about 20 minutes we headed out to have lunch.

Esenam’s parents recommended the National Theater as a good place for us to try FuFu. So, we went there and decided to share a huge bowl of fufu. We also ordered fried rice and chicken…boy am I happy that we did because the fufu wasn’t my style. I had a couple bites just to say that I tried it, and that was enough. After lunch we headed back to Oxford Street and bargained for some more paintings that we had seen the previous day. We randomly met up with some SAS students on the street and decided to stay at the same hotel as them for the night. After some more shopping and walking the street we were hungry again and remembered that Esenam had said the Pizza Inn had a special, Terrific Tuesday. We ordered a pizza and enjoyed our mini feast. After that we took a taxi back to Esenam’s home to get our belongings. Her parents greeted us with open arms and elaborated some more on life in Ghana. Esenam’s parents insisted that their driver, Polaine, be our driver for the following day. Her father wanted us to be able to do everything in town that we wanted to do and having a driver would enable us to get everything done. I was surprised by such an offer and definitely couldn’t resist. So, Esenam wrote out a schedule for the day and Polaine’s phone number so that we could call him in the morning. Her mom drove us to our hotel and we hung out with SAS students for the night.