Arrived in Accra

I'm here! Along with 24 other VSO volunteers who are about to start their placements in Ghana.  I knew there were a fair number of others on the flight from Heathrow, and as groups of nice looking people gathered for chats by the loos on the plane I began to work out who they were, and (after the trashy romcom I was watching finished) I went to say hello.

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The 15 of us from the UK who flew in yesterday have been joined by 9 others, from Australia, India and the Philippines and together we started our In Country Training (ICT - the first of a million acronyms!) today.  To my delight one of the things on the agenda for this morning was a bus tour around Accra. Fabulous. Was great to see where we are beyond the hotel walls (we arrived in the dark yesterday)! This afternoon it was back to the conference room for more briefings on VSO's work in Ghana and some of the more mundane logistical bits, but I was very happy to receive my pocket money of 15 cedis for the week (about £7.50!).

All in all a great day one :)