Thanksgiving

The international program here put on a Thanksgiving dinner for the foreign students, complete with everything we expected plus Ghanaian dishes. It was nice to get a taste of home.
Exams here are drawn out over a month, so I have been taking an exam a week. The exams here are usually 100% of the grade, which makes it a little intense. All of mine have been essay based, and I had a pretty good idea what would be on them, so I think I did well. I will end on Dec. 13 and then I will get to travel to a national park in the north to see baboons and elephants. Then, I may continue on to Burkina Faso and Mali.
Me and some friends played some disk golf around campus recently. Some Ghanaians are interested, some are scared, some are just angry about us playing.
Everything here is going well. About 3/4 of the students are going home after this semester is over, only the true adventurers will remain.
I hope everyone had a good thanksgiving and know that i miss you all.
love, Forest

Ho

Over the weekend three friends and I traveled about 5 hours to the northeast near a town called Ho. (Not to be confused with Hohoe) From there we headed north to a hotel deep in an area of mountainous rainforest. We got up around 5AM to do some exploring. We walked down the dirt road for a while a turned down a trail that looked interesting. We were astounded by how lush and humid it was. We explored about a mile down the trail, having to jump across streams and dodge massive spider webs. Just as we concluded that this was the craziest most remote place we had ever been, two locals came up the trail, warmly greeting us. We were blown away to think that this was home for these people, that they walked these trails everyday. We must have looked crazy to them, just 4 white guys not knowing where they are but excited to be in the rainforest. The locals eventually pointed us to a village, where we decided we should just go where they tell us, and do what most other white people do there. We were sent on another trail, climbing a mountain by way of a trail cut into a cliff. Sweating freely, we enjoyed the amazing views of rolling hills of dense rainforest. We finally made it to the top, where large metal cross had been erected. We took a break there for a few hours and ate lunch. From there we went to a village where a festival was happening with lots of singing and dancing. There we met a guy who said he would led us to a nearby waterfall. We headed down a new trail for about two miles until we found it. We took a swim and a break, enjoyed the unusually strong wind that came off of the waterfall. We then hiked back to the village, where we hired the most beat up car I have ever seen to take us back to the hotel. We passed out exhausted, and headed home the next day. It was one of the best times I have had in Ghana.
Other than that, class are ending, Finals take a month here so I have some time to relax. Hope everyone else is enjoying life too.
Love, Forest