{"id":1379,"date":"2018-10-05T19:31:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2018-10-05T19:31:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:31:36","slug":"first-time-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2018\/10\/05\/first-time-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akwaaba!\u00a0 Greetings from Ghana.\u00a0 We have arrived in Accra after two fairly smooth flights, and have spent a wonderful first evening with our hosts in Accra, the Korums.\u00a0 Our trip through Accra from the airport to their house was not as different as we expected \u2013 in many ways, like a city in the US, but much more colorful :) the streets were busy, lined with people carrying things on their heads or walking between the cars to sell those well-balanced objects, with motorcyclists zipping in and out of the cars.\u00a0 Their tall buildings were among the very colorful landscape, with lots of different geometric shapes and designs, which made for an exciting drive.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still hard to believe that we\u2019re here, actually here.\u00a0 Daniel and I have been enjoying the small glimpses of \u201cwildlife\u201d that we\u2019ve seen here, a few small birds and a dancing lizard, and look forward to tomorrow, when we\u2019ll be flying up north to Tamale, and getting to start the work we\u2019re here for!!\u00a0 A huge praise, all 10 pieces of our luggage made it here with us, despite the very short layover we had in Belgium \u2013 which means that we have all of our clothes, tech equipment, and all of the Bible+ units we brought here!<\/p>\n<p>There will be more to report tomorrow I\u2019m sure, but for tonight, we\u2019re re-packing and getting ready for our flight up north tomorrow (and sleeping, which I\u2019m really looking forward to!).\u00a0 We are praising God for the luggage arriving here, and for good health so far, and are asking Him for safe travels on the rest of our journey, and for a productive start to our technical work tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Grace and peace to you all,<\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akwaaba!\u00a0 Greetings from Ghana.\u00a0 We have arrived in Accra after two fairly smooth flights, and have spent a wonderful first evening with our hosts in Accra, the Korums.\u00a0 Our trip through Accra from the airport to their house was not as different as we expected \u2013 in many ways, like a city in the US, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/2018\/10\/05\/first-time-in-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Time in Africa<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leopardshark.com\/ghana-trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}