When you go into a bus, sit down and right away feel your butt hurting you know that you are out travelling and have been sitting in a bus or tro-tro too much.

That was what I experienced the past week where I was travelling around Ghana with Nina. With a wish of going up north to see Mole National Park and head back south with the yam-transportating ferry we ended up by spending a lot of hours in poor conditioned buses on Ghana’s only roads heading up north which is litterally just dirt tramped down so vehicles have a decent chance of passing through.
In the beginning you feel fine about it since that is just the life down here but after a while where you have been lifting your butt and trying to twist it different ways so the start of the stinging pain get extended a bit you begin to wonder if that is really how holidays should feel and if it is worth it. And then imagine during that for days in a row…!
Our travels started in Accra where we met up before heading to Kumasi. The next day we went from Kumasi to Tamale and the following days from Tamale to Mole to stay there for some days before we headed back to Hohoe where the last three weeks of my African adventure will be spent.

Before the travels and the last chapter of my adventures here could begin I needed to end another chapter. Chapter 2..

One day sitting at the internet cafe in Abura, Cape Coast a fellow volunteer saw me writing a status update on Facebook in English and asked me why since I was Danish.
My answer: Being down here for so long time do something to people. When I get back home to Denmark I am seriously afraid that people won’t understand what I experienced when I am telling them my stories but the people who are or have been down here experienced the same things and are the ones which I shared all my experiences with and therefore I began to write my status updates in English so the ones which I am currently spending my life with and who are in the same situation can follow my views and feelings about being here.

Chapter 2 which I recently finished was a goodbye to many things. A goodbye to all the people with whom I spent the first two month, a goodbye to my placement at the orphanage, a goodbye to Cape Coast and in general a goodbye to the whole way I have been living my life for the first two months.
For those reasons I decided to write this blog in English as a kind of a tribute to all the people who influenced me and my life here. For those people I am deeply grateful.

My two month here have given me an invaluable life-experience. I have learnt a lot about myself and a lot of my views on life in different situations have changed as well. Besides from all the wise and philosophic things I could keep rattling off I rather want to mention what a great time I have had in general.

Some quick memorable moments I can mention are the simple way of living in the Akuapem Hills, the fiddle- and guitar filled evenings at Mama’s, the ten Star challenges in Mamfe and Cape Coast, the school we began to build from stratch for the orphanage in Tinkong, the soccer match between the volunteers in the Hills and the local team in Kwamoso, the games we played with the kids at the orphanage in Ansepetu & the field trip where we took all of them to Hans Cottage Botel to swim in the pool and see the crocodiles in the pond besides it and all of the weekends where we went travelling.

In some way I would like to mention a lot of names of the people who have contributed to making my African adventure as great as it has been so far but I think that everyone who have been down here know that they in some way made a difference either for me in person or for the way we worked and lived.

Even though I probably won’t talk to half the people I spent time with here once I get home I will forever feel influenced by everyone.

How to end this blog the proper way I don’t know. I could continue the sweet talk in danger of going too far or I could come with some random anecdote. I think I will end the blog with a thought I had the other day and let people decide for themselves what they thought when a big part of their adventure was done.

Whatever you do with your life you eventually need to take some decisions and if they are small or big can changes from time to time but I believe that all of them make us the persons we are. Some times the decisions will probably not be good and you can end up regreting them but I have realised down here that if you always regret the bad decisions you will not enjoy life the same way because no matter how you put it even the bad decisions will eventually make a positive effect on your life.

Thanks for spending your time reading this blog.

Thanks for having the interest in my African adventure.

A blog of my third chapter: The Hohoeian Life will be posted in a week.

- Daniel, Danny, Dan, Dennis, Big D, Captain