And then it was all over. Back home. It’s cold, a bit grey, and oh so quiet. No colorful clothes, no pounding speakers constantly shouting out our favourite songs Amen, Johnny or Aye. Our last weeks in Cape Coast were quite intense but also so much fun. We were working on the group paper, hanging around and sightseeing in town and a couple of days a week we went to Brenu, soaking our last time there in. The farewell party came and it was all like one big dance floor. Students from UCC were invited and so were all the boys from Brenu, and everyone else that we have gotten to know during the past months. On our last friday together, we had another party at Nana Bema, filled with speeches and food and local schnapps. Afterwards most of us went to dance one last time at Oasis, it was such a perfect end to our time in Cape Coast.
I spent my last three Ghanaian weeks in Busua together with 15 or so of my classmates. We all stayed at the same place which made it feel a little bit like we just moved Nana Bema to another town. We were swimming, surfing, hiking, barbecuing, dancing and going on small adventures every day, trying to squeeze in some time for writing the home exam. One after one people started to leave, either to go travelling in Ghana, Africa or Asia. Or to go back home to Scandinavia.
It’s really weird. Ghana already feels so far away, even if I got back to Sweden just a couple of days ago. Most of all I’m so used being surrounded by all these amazing individuals 24 hours a day, every day. It takes a while getting used to not seeing everyone all the time. However, it is kind of nice also, being home. It gives you some time to reflect and think of all those things you experienced, all the people you’ve gotten to know, and seeing family and friends is great. Although, we have already started to plan our reunions, it looks like it will be 17th of may in Norway, Midsummer in Sweden and Roskilde festival in Denmark. I can’t wait!!
So (to copy Isa’s wonderful farewell speech a little bit)… BIG BIG thank you to Kulturstudier for being such a cool organization letting students go on trips like this, experience different cultures and learning about interesting subjects, other people aswell as yourself. Thank you Ghana for being such a rad and random and crazy beautiful country. Thank you to all the lecturers and seminar leaders and all the staff that’s been involved in GES14. And thank you to all of you students that’s been on this safari, even though we’ve had some ridiculously good lectures I’ve learnt way more from all of you guys than from any of them. Stay awesome and keep being so inspiring, I’ll see you soon.
XOXO Elin
