A view into the life of Jay, Christy, Luke and Ryan as we travel around the world! The original Orriscope was an editorial written by Jay's grandfather when he owned and edited the Grand Forks Gazette in British Columbia.
Once again, Ghana stands out as one of our most memorable ports – this time because of Fredrick Benneh Frimpong and our 4 day homestay in Senase village. Fred is a 25 year old Ghanaian from Senase and currently finishing his studies in the US. He flew back to Ghana from San Francisco just for…
We have finally figured out how to upload links to word documents. We had several assignments for our travel writing class and we linked them to this page. See the documents below if you want to read more about Ghana. Anticipating Ghana’s Slave Dungeons – Christy Expectations of Ghana – Jay Anticipation of Ghana –…
Ghana is engraved in our souls. In 2009, it changed us more than any other country on our around the world trip and it rocked us again on this visit. It is hard to describe why Ghana affects our family this way. In an effort to demonstrate why, we will include essays we wrote entitled…
Luke and Ryan’s Perspective For us, Ghana was an exciting and different place. There were two things that were really weird – people carried tons of stuff on their heads (platters full of things they wanted to sell, water, anything), and that people stood in between cars on the road and tried to sell things…