March 22, The City of Ho

March 25th, 2009 by Elias Parisca

Woke up, got some nice egg breakfast at the hostel restaurant and took a cab to the transport station to get a Tro-tro (van) to take us to Ho.  This was no ordinary van.  From the outside it looked like a van.  The inside had comfortable seats, air conditioning, and 2 portable DVD players, each 1 in the back of the head rest of the driver and passenger seats.  Never seen that before.  Pleasantly surprised, however, as I got to watch Paul Walker riding a horse getting chased by Mexicans on motorcycles in one of the top 3 worst movies I’ve ever seen.  But hey, it was entertaining for the 2 1/2 hour trip to Ho, the capital of the Volta region, home to the office of my program (Bridge) and the main hub for all the villages we’re trying to help. Once in Ho, Joy and I took a cab to the Volta office to meet Courage, my “counterpart” (basically my guide throughout my stay), a 25-year-old (male) school teacher.  Upon meeting Courage, we took another cab to my new home, in the small village of Adaklu-Have.

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