Travel Plans

Well, my last exam is on Tuesday (note to self: start studying) and most people are flying out next week, whether for another adventure or just to go home. It really bites, because now that they're all ready to go home, us veterans who are here until May are feeling like WE'RE ready to go, too.

On the upside, everyone has really sweet travel plans from after exams to the beginning of February. Here's mine!

December 8th - 14th (-ish): Togo and Benin with friends. It'll be neat to have a taste of French West Africa (apparently there are cafés and baguettes everywhere).

December 16th - January 11th: Flying to London, meeting Maleaha, taking the train/ferry to Dublin, meeting Anthony and staying in town for two weeks (including Christmas and New Years!), with some weekend excursions. Then head back to London for a few days of sightseeing and back to Accra.

January 13th - First week of February: Head up North through Ghana, Burkina Faso and arrive at Bamako, Mali to meet up with Joe and Matt in time for the inaugural African Social Forum, a giant open-ended conference on issues of poverty, democracy and economic injustice. Then we'll poke around Mali (which fellow travellers have said is breathtaking) for about a week, before heading back home for classes next semester.


It looks like it's going to be fantastic. After that, I'll be flat broke and it'll be about 3 more months of school and then home again, home again, jiggity-jig...