Day 2 - Learning and Exploring

Today started with a meeting at SIT, breakfast, and hopping in the bus for an urban drop-off activity. This was an experience where we were dropped off in groups of four at an urban market in Accra with the goal of interacting with locals. Each of us were given individualized tasks to complete while having our conversations, I was given the task of asking seven people what they would want to see developed in Ghana going forward. At first, the experience was nerve-racking, but once I got into conversations everyone was generally pretty easy to talk to. 





After the urban drop-off activity, we returned to SIT for lunch before heading out for our tour of Accra. The tour consisted of a visit to the National Museum of Ghana where we learned more about the history of the country. After the museum we went to see the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum where we learned more interesting and important pieces of Ghana's history. Kwame led Ghana as it achieved independence - the first country in Africa to do so. This inspired many other African countries to do the same. The picture below is of the monument dedicated to Kwame and was constructed where he made his Declaration of Independence speech. The statue shows Kwame pointing forward, representative of the notion that Ghana will be going forward from now on. 



To complete the day, we rode the bus back to Melcom, the local grocery store, to pick up some supplies before going back to SIT for dinner - delicious BBQ chicken wings with white pineapple and carrots. Overall, today was a good day, but we are all ready to go to bed early for inauguration day tomorrow. 

Nolan
 



 

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