Akwaaba!!!!   I just learned today means "welcome" in the Akan language.  This language is native to Ghana and is spoken by about 1/2 of the population.  One of the most surreal things for me so far though is that almost everyone here speaks fluent English with a British accent.  This make sense since the country was at one point a British colony.  I have been many places but few so foreign in which English is the primary spoken language. 

The group (10 teachers and myself from all over the country) arrived today at about 2 pm Ghana time.  It is pretty hot and humid (32 deg C which is about 90 deg F).  We are 6 hours ahead of central standard time which means I have basically been up for 36 hours since I slept little on the 9 hour plane ride.  Below is a picture of my first meal.  Sorry of the low quality picture.  The meal was referred to as red-red.  It can best be described as a fish that has been cooked in a slightly spicy tomato sauce and served with fried plantains (basically across between a potato and a banana but not sweet).

To my students I am posing the following factor label problem.  Mr. Holzmiller, I would appreciate if you could see they tackle this one.

The currency in Ghana is the Cedi (see picture below).

So 1 US dollar = 1.67 Cedi.  If the cost of gasoline here is 1.71 Cedi per liter, and there are 3.78 L in 1 gallon, figure out how much money it would cost to fill up a 10.0 gallon tank of a Hyndai which tends to be a popular car model here.  Please respond as a class with the correct answer to this.

Tomorrow I will try to give a video blog update.  I am pretty jet lagged today