The Sahara

DAY ZERO

With a last minute breakfast in Toronto, Danny (UofA EWB Canada Intern), and my coach for this JFID placement, took us for Mexican food seemingly to mock us as we were about to endure several days of travel. The meal went down well however, as did his advice informing us of EWBs expectations for filing reports and questions about our work overseas.

With some last minute packing, we left for the airport, and were in Amsterdam after a few scotches, beers and wines and a short nap. In Amsterdam, we generally split up and some headed to the roof of the airport to get in some fresh air before the next leg. I made the mistake of staying indoors the whole time on a beautiful day in the city. However before we knew it, we were off again on our second flight, a strikingly beautiful flight directly south to Accra over the Sahara Desert. Scattered across the vast wasteland were blowing sand dunes and tiny villages near small oasis' of trees and lakes.

After a little more wine, we arrived in Accra in a humid night. We boarded the shuttle bus which drove us the 30m from the airplane to the terminal (we were not allowed to walk), and we flew through immigration. We left the airport to hectic scenes of chaos in the perimeter of the terminal. We were in Accra, Ghana.

Monday Night 7pm Ghana time.