It has been an incredibly busy week of interviews and my professor asked me to switch up my research in kind of a major way. So I have been scrambling to get my act together. I spent the weekend in and around Accra. I volunteered at a really bizarre youth conference on the state of the African Union (three of their "featured" speakers were video recordings), went to the international trade fair (where I bought low fat milk from South Africa - so much for minimizing my carbon foot print), and hung out at a new beach close to my house.
I have been crazily running all over the city to talk with people from the major parties to wrap up my research...I am feeling I could probably stick around for a long time and study the state of democracy in Ghana, but I am ready to return to warm showers, food without bugs in it, and drinkable tap water.
Today, I am off to see the electoral commissioner and head of the National Commission for Civic Education...fun times, really fun times. There may be a trip up to the Volta region in the works for the weekend and it is possible I will return to greater Accra a queen, but we will see how it all pans out, and what exactly will be my queenly responsibilities.
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