Things I have noticed that are very different about Ghana:
- It gets dark at 6:30. I feel like it's about 10 PM at around 7.
- Ghanaians have their own secret handshake. You shake, then snap with your and the shakee's middle fingers. It takes a while to get, but I feel really cool now that I can pull it off.
- The toilet paper doesn't have perferations.
- I bought soy sauce, and it doesn't taste like soy sauce at all.
- I bought hot sauce, and it tasted like slightly spicy salad dressing.
- I met a man on the street - Aziz - and now he wants to take me to the beach. I talked to him for under 5 minutes. Friendly guy or will I be mugged to death? You decide.
We also had our first round of classes yesterday, and it looks like it's going to be a good bit of work. Lots of reading, plus two 12-page papers that I need to get working on soon. My classes meet once a week each - Ghana Today and Sociology of Development in Ghana on Wednesday, and a class relating to our internships on Thursday, which will require a 10-page paper. Best of all, we can't check anything out from the University of Ghana library, so I imagine I'll be living there most of the time.
This week though, it's still slacking left and right. I need to do laundry tomorrow, which will involve two buckets, some soap, and much confusion and probably not very clean clothes. Perhaps more pictures soon?
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I met a guy named Aziz in Bethlehem. Sounded nice; was a big hawker. Much too friendly. How far away is the beach? Could be fun!
ReplyDeleteSometimes when you are in a foreign country you just make friends with random strangers, it happened to me and Zach in Mexico, our waiter asked us if we wanted to go barhopping with him and his buddy, and we ended up hanging out with him every night we were there. However he was from canada so it was hard to be sketched out by him.
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