Day 2

The next day, Monday, we woke up at 12: 30pm. Guessing jet lag got the better of us. A knock on the door and it ended up being a man from the hotel saying Patience, from the IOM, was downstairs waiting. I was so excited to meet her. Alexa, had been dropped off at 5am and was also there. It was such a great reunion. Patience just came to say hello, the motherly woman we'd soon get to know very well, and then we were off on our own for the day. We ended up going to the place down the road for chicken kabobs and jollof rice. Delicious! We were still craving traditional African food and promised ourselves we'd do it soon. After breakfast/lunch/dinner or whatever meal that ended up being, we returned to the mall to get Alexa's phone situation figured out. We decided to walk on the highway, which is common, to the mall. We definitly witnessed some of the slums of Accra on the way. After we got that figured out, we decided to be adventurous and just walk around Accra for the hell of it and see what we could find. At the end of the day, we must have walked maybe 10 or so miles. We ventured around the streets, got a couple marriage offers from the overly friendly but nonthreatening men, and made a couple of friends. We literally walked with no direction in mind, it was great.

Later that night, we ended up meeting Ben, the fourth intern at our hostel. The team was finally complete!