less expensive rountrips...

Almost everyone for the program has booked their flight, but one or two have not, and I just thought i would suggest that if you want to save about $800, Emirates has flights from SFO-Accra (in Ghana) for about $1800 (leaving August 31, returning Dec. 11). The downside is you would have to spend a night in Accra (about $100 for a nice hotel, which you want after a flight that long) and then take a very long (sometimes 24 hours) bus ride to Ouagadougou...costing about $50, and then also a Ghana visa (costing $100) so in the end it probably is about the same price (especially if you count the vlaue of your time sitting on a crowded bus for 24 hours!).