It has been a while! I'm sorry for not posting last weekend... it was a pretty uneventful weekend. The only thing interesting thing I did was hang out with my Ghanaian friend Abigail who showed me how to make Jollof Rice! It was super complicated though so I'm going to have her write everything down before I go because I definitely don't remember everything!! It was really good! Still a little spicy but the taste was a lot better than the jollof I buy at the night market for example. It was really fun to hang out and cook with her! I forgot to take my camera to her room though so unfortunately I don't have any pictures from that. The rest of last weekend was just hanging out with people, taking a practice GRE online, nothing too crazy. No trips last weekend!
This weekend has been fun. Friday was a Muslim holiday so we didn't have any classes or anything going on. I finally had a Ghanaian show me how he washes his clothes and got some tips. I washed today and I feel a lot more confident in it! It is really exhausting though--I only washed a few of my clothes because it was too much piled up. Also on Friday Despicable Me was on TV! I was pretty excited!! It was just a nice, relaxing day around the hostel :) I hung out with Abigail again so that was fun, too!
Saturday was my adventure day! My Ghanaian friend Joshua invited me to a wedding at the church that he usually goes to when he's not on campus. As far as I know he didn't know the people getting married, but everyone at the church was welcome.Well we ended up getting pretty delayed because Joshua was waiting for someone and they were late and all that so by the time we actually got to the church the couple was already married!! They had already done the vows and the rings and all that stuff. We basically were just there for the sermon and the offertory and the ending. It was still really cool though! There was SO much dancing and singing!! It was so spirited and colorful! I loved it!
After the wedding we went to Joshua's parents' house because it was nearby. We had lunch there and it was soup that had some sort of meat in it. I thought it was fish but I kept telling myself it was chicken. My trick worked and I ate it all. Then later I asked Joshua what it actually was and he said goat!!!!! So I unknowingly ate goat soup! I'm so glad I didn't know that beforehand! Then after lunch we met up with the guy that he was supposed to meet earlier and we went to someone's house. He's going to be tutoring a boy in French and this was the NICEST house I have seen in Ghana. It was so so beautiful! I wanted to take pictures but I figured that'd be weird. The mom was really nice and she gave me pretty tasty ice cream! They even had a pet dog!! It was the second pet dog I've seen in Ghana. The boy was surprised when I went to pet it instead of running away. He asked me... wait, you're not afraid of it??? It was kind of funny.
Well then after that we left and came back to campus and that was about all of the excitement of my day. It was really cool to be able to see the wedding, even if we did crash it and miss the exciting part. But still, I enjoyed it. And then it was great to be able to see people's homes. I haven't really gone to any Ghanaian's houses so that was a new experience. Both houses were really nice and comfortable :) It was a great day!
Today I'm just doing homework and the like. We only have two weeks of classes left!! I start taking my finals the last week of November and I'm finished by December 10th. Hopefully this week we have less power issues. Last week was the same story-- almost every day we had either the water or the power go out for some period of time. Supposedly my hostel has a generator, but it's broken now. I'm hoping they fix it soon! It's all part of the experience, though. :)
Pictures from the wedding!!
That took FOREVER to upload, so here is the link to the updated album with some more pictures :)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1971853938554.2054210.1309171199&type=1&l=023a493b19
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