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We touched down in Accra for my second trip and Tina’s sixth to Ghana. A sense of relief immediately overwhelmed me as we taxied to stay at a friend of Capers, one of three new operations managers we are taking to live and work with the Della team in Hohoe. The other two, Chandler and Adrienne, will also be helping out with production management, skills training classes, creating a standardized sewing program for the Happy Kids Orphanage, product development, and much more!
The next morning we woke up for a delicious breakfast of eggs, toast, porridge, and Don Simon (Amazingggg) pineapple juice. Since we were all anticipating a Think Thin Bar breakfast to go, you can imagine how pleasantly surprised we were for the feast laid out in front of us. It was perfect.
After breakfast, we took taxis to the market, including the ATL factory, where we picked out some great new fabrics to add to our spring collection. This is always my favorite part of the whole Ghanaian adventure because all of the fabric bundles are wrapped in white cloth before we get to tear into them and reveal their intriguing contents. I love the tribal prints most of all and trying to visualize each print as a final product (hobo, MacBook case, Headband, etc.) Discovering some exceptionally strong prints is something we were pretty ecstatic about. We hope to develop some super-fly new accessories to release at Project and ENK in Las Vegas February 13th – 15th…. And this time fellas, you’re not left out!
With all our bags and bundles of fabric crammed into a tro-tro, we began our four hour venture north from Accra to Hohoe. Unlike the last trip, all parts of our vehicle stayed intact. The only thing we left behind was Chandler’s suitcase. Since he had forgotten to transfer his bags for the international flight at JFK, his bags wouldn’t arrive for the next two days! As Tina and my time here is short lived, we have to continue on and just figure that issue out when the bag arrives. Welcome to TIA (This Is Africa) Round II.
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