June 12th

Today is our very last day well at least for the study abroad. I don’t even know where to begin on how sad I am that it is all coming to an end but I appreciate this trip so much so I would like to use my last post to reflect something I learned First I have to say Ghana is the most beautiful place I have seen. The beauty runs so so deep from the richness in culture to the kindness of people I have now after 19 years of being alive know where I come from. I am Enyonam AMA Mensah I always carried my name and would say I’m from Ghana but now after getting to experience it as an Aleut I can say this is me. Enyonam Ama Mensah of the Volta region. I am proud of that as I always have been but now more than every. I’ve seen the beauty of my people and it feels like I’ve seen the light One of the first things I do quickly realized while in Ghana that my parents have always told me is the way America portrays the whole continent is simply unrealistic and not true!  Africa was filled with and is still to this day has natural and raw materials that are taken as of today! Just straight exploited for so many years so of course there is poverty but there’s poverty literally everywhere! They make it seem like everyone just sits in huts miserable poor and sad. But it is the opposite African people are rich in ways that run deeper than just money. They are rich in the African personality. People who could have nothing but would give their last half of Anything! Without a second thought just so the person next to them would not have to be without.