In less than two months I will heading out on a new & slightly intimidating adventure in the West African country of Ghana. This is a semester long program created, organized and ran by the Calvin College IDS (International Development Studies) department. I will be headed to Ghana on January 4th and I will not return until May 30th. For those of you who have no idea where Ghana is, here's a map:
I will enrolled as a student of the University of Ghana which is in Accra the country's capital! This means that along with classes taught by my Calvin Professor I will also be taking classes with Ghanaians and that are taught by Ghanaian professors. Our group will be living on campus in the International students dorm, hopefully we will be placed with Ghanaians roommates as well. We get the chance to travel around the country during the month of January in order to see more of Ghana's landscape.
On top of being incredibly excited and thrilled to spend 5 months in Africa, I'm finding that I am extraordinarily nervous due to the fact that is it five months in Africa. The thought of creating life long friendships with people from the half way around the world is amazing. I know I will be sad to be missing things at home including my 21st birthday, The Superbowl and of course my friends and family but when else would I have the incredible privilege to study and live abroad?
