Accra
I am back in Africa. :) finally!
Most of us have these experiences of time being extremly relative. Some things go SO fast, and then when you sit down and think about it at the same time it feels like a million years.
That is basically the experience I had today walking down Oxfordstreet in Accra. It looks exactly the same, most of the hotels, shops and restaurants etc are the same - and then some new ones have appeared. I felt like I might as well have been walking there 4 years ago, when I was here last.
But then, it is so different. Last time I was here, it was with different people and in a different role. I walked past the road leading to my new house thinking, wow in a few hours I am moving down there. This is 'home' now, and I know absolutly noone - I don't even know my own house yet...
I know this will change but, sometimes when you start over, even if it is in a well known place, it is just... Yeah, it is waht it is. But I am definilty far away from Juba. And right now I just want to be there - how long before Accra and not Juba is 'home' I wonder?
But all those worries aside - I am here. There is a nice breeze coming from the water, it is humid like... well let us say it is humid. :) And I am in Accra!!!! Somehow that just makes me smile.
and in about 30 minutes I move to my very own apartment - where I will be living alone for the first time in my life - not sure this is the right place to do that experiment though... :)
I am back in Africa. :) finally!
Most of us have these experiences of time being extremly relative. Some things go SO fast, and then when you sit down and think about it at the same time it feels like a million years.
That is basically the experience I had today walking down Oxfordstreet in Accra. It looks exactly the same, most of the hotels, shops and restaurants etc are the same - and then some new ones have appeared. I felt like I might as well have been walking there 4 years ago, when I was here last.
But then, it is so different. Last time I was here, it was with different people and in a different role. I walked past the road leading to my new house thinking, wow in a few hours I am moving down there. This is 'home' now, and I know absolutly noone - I don't even know my own house yet...
I know this will change but, sometimes when you start over, even if it is in a well known place, it is just... Yeah, it is waht it is. But I am definilty far away from Juba. And right now I just want to be there - how long before Accra and not Juba is 'home' I wonder?
But all those worries aside - I am here. There is a nice breeze coming from the water, it is humid like... well let us say it is humid. :) And I am in Accra!!!! Somehow that just makes me smile.
and in about 30 minutes I move to my very own apartment - where I will be living alone for the first time in my life - not sure this is the right place to do that experiment though... :)
