Saturday, December 18, 2010

A Different Way To Wax A 12 Year Old Eyebrow

As you go on vacation Wedding &

VACATION! !
is now for the first time by 15 January relaxed. Soon it is in the Green Turtle Lodge, where I will be many days and evenings with cocktails, wine and books on the beach and just the "stress" of recent weeks forgotten.

And again it is hard to believe how fast time flies. For over three months, I find myself here now. Since there is still some time for a little summary. The following are excerpts from my first official report to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

If I now remember the time shortly before my departure, I come now to my already naive. Were my associations of Ghana but rather a flat rate of "developing country" reduced, although of course I always tried to differentiate the whole thing. Since we are always caught in the fast generalize: Africa and the Thought of himself, sitting wrapped in a small hut in the wilderness by locals, drawing from a water fountain, etc.

But you can describe something so complex as life in an unknown country or hard to imagine before you have not experienced it myself. Accordingly, it is then relatively quickly disillusioned. Life here (at least from the perspective of the city as I have met so far) is busy, loud, busy and colorful and has little to do with any romanticized Africa stories that are familiar from adventure novels.

And even if it is here in part as the major problems with infrastructure, but has by standing at the roadside water vendors up to the head teacher or university professor here each its place and its strong role functioning. And then somehow rolled up and the road each day with on and off and somehow it is always there to where you would like to go, sometimes it just takes up his time. Ultimately, there are more or less all there is here too, but just in a slightly different way.

So, I'm assuming that I have on the beach is no way I'll get back to pictures or put them online. Would therefore I do so then on my return. I wish you in advance a Merry Christmas. I will definitely have;)

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Do You Need A Horizontal Licence To Go To Vegas

Accra Part 2

Thus it was on Friday evening with the VIP bus to Accra for the wedding of a cousin of Douglas. After we checked into the hotel, it was already in a bar in which the night was spent. The next day there was a reunion with some other volunteers and friends from Accra, Ghana. The Saturday evening was then spent with Laurids place where there was a barbecue-and-bred. The first real meat after three months. This has definitely done well. On Sunday morning we went to the wedding in Madina. It was nice to see how the Ceremony takes place here, even if spoken almost exclusively in Twi. Pictures speak louder than words, so enjoy the sensations. After about 180 exams, and corrected again twice as many tests I'm tired at the moment of writing. It will forgive me.

Oliver & Samir

The bride

After brief
solemnly under corrugated iron roof

landscape between Kumasi and Accra


a night ...


Yam & Banku for breakfast

Only after a beer

Laurids P (a) lace



Kelly & I quite important

Douglas & Lea

houses on the roadside

Traffic

Do Suction Cups On A Bath Mat Ruin The Bathtub

impressions of a funeral

come after the stress of the last days I now to show you some pictures of the funeral ceremony of the deceased mother of the school owner. Note that a tailored our extra clothes for the occasion.

James, Leah, Christopher and I

The mourners

Each guest must welcome the whole family

Leah with child on her back

The Head Teacher of the school

Lea and a drunken teacher

Monday, December 6, 2010

Camel Toe In The Olimpic Games

... this is the house of Nicholas

Today is the 6th December and the first time in 20 years no shoe was at my door when I crawled out of bed this morning and was preparing for class. Maybe it was because, or at the 30 degrees and sunshine that I completely forgot about that event. Well, here is like weather Technically almost every day at a time. I will soon upload pictures of the large funeral where we were yesterday. (Includes snapshots of Leah and me in traditional burial costumes.)

Next weekend it goes to a wedding in Accra. Since there will probably be back a lot to report.

the way here is the link to the trailer the "climax" in which I so can not participate. One or the other of you can still possibly yes on 20 December appear there. There seems to be a good thing.

PS: From 1:14 you can "This Machine is Breathing" see / hear.

KLIMAX TRAILER look here

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Temporary Tramp Stamp Buy

Total panic in the cockpit

Hey, I should not make it to Lufthansa, then I'll go

easy to Air India, as well as to take everyone. .. incredibly


panicked co-pilot aircraft can be 2,000 meters deep overthrow

He wanted only straighten his seat and triggered from almost
an aircraft disaster: because the Indian co-pilot a plane with 113 passengers
accidentally came to the stick
crashed the airplane 2,000 meters in depth, as evidenced by the
report of the Indian aviation authorities.

Only in the last minute the captain could prevent a disaster. The first officer was at the nosedive in such panic that he was "neither could bring the plane under control, reopen the cockpit door or answer the call of the cabin crew, "says the report of the incident, which took place in May.
The captain had to using an emergency code, the cockpit door open and was finally the 25-year-old snatch the stick -.. and thus save all the passengers aboard the Boeing 737 before the death
The near-accident occurred during a toilet break the 39-year-old captain of his co-pilot had " accidentally "use the stick, it said in the report. He had indicated that during the subsequent dive have been sheer terror of being paralyzed and no longer have to know what to do in such a situation. In the cabin broke out due to the fall flight panic. However, no one was injured.
The aircraft of Air India Express was at 37,000 feet altitude on the way from Dubai to Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra, as the incident on 26 Occurred in May. Only four days earlier, had crashed at the airport in the Indian port city of Mangalore, a machine of the Air India because of a dormant pilots. While 158 people were killed.