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Once again, warning: as I write this, I'm well faded, so pardon the errorrs.
Friday, August 25
Well, well. My plans for the weekend got completely busted. I had planned to go to Sefwi Wiawso for the weekend. Sefwi, which lay in West Ghana about an hour away from Kumasi, is the one Jewish community in Ghana. I was hoping to spend Shabbat and Havdalah with them, but there's a major community event this weekend, and I didn't want to intrude. However, I made plans to go out there two weekends from now, so it's all good.
The day was rather slow. Two scheduled classes today, but only one professor showed up. Super-sweet. The one prof who did show up told us that we wouldn't have class next week. Once again, super-sweet.
With a free afternoon, my roommate Francis and I headed down to Makola market on the search for clothes and shows. However, the vendors were giving us total "obruni prices," even after we told them "No Obruni Price." We both walked away with nothing.
Due to traffic at Tema Station, we showed up an hour late to an International Students Welcome Dinner. It was just fine. We got plenty of good food. Will, one of my friends from UCLA, got up on stage and played trumpet with the band. It was unreal.
With said plans broken, the EAP posse decided to go to Afrodesiac (bastardized spelling I'm sure. Sorry) to celebrate Christina's birthday. Because of the price of drinks, we decided to pregame hard and pay for as few drinks as possible. It was a great night to say the least. Great music, great people, and I was just drunk enough to dance. Never a good thing. Haha.
By the end of the night, one of our compadres, Kevin, had taken a slight beating from his alcohol, so I helped him back. Apparently, I care for drunk people even when I'm drunk myself. Makes no difference to me.
I'm somewhat disappointed that my plans were broken. I was really looking forward to interacting with the Jewish community. Another weekend. I have plenty of reading to do as it is. Maybe it was for the better.
There may be more pictures by the weekend. I will do my best to get them up.
LDG
Friday, August 25
Well, well. My plans for the weekend got completely busted. I had planned to go to Sefwi Wiawso for the weekend. Sefwi, which lay in West Ghana about an hour away from Kumasi, is the one Jewish community in Ghana. I was hoping to spend Shabbat and Havdalah with them, but there's a major community event this weekend, and I didn't want to intrude. However, I made plans to go out there two weekends from now, so it's all good.
The day was rather slow. Two scheduled classes today, but only one professor showed up. Super-sweet. The one prof who did show up told us that we wouldn't have class next week. Once again, super-sweet.
With a free afternoon, my roommate Francis and I headed down to Makola market on the search for clothes and shows. However, the vendors were giving us total "obruni prices," even after we told them "No Obruni Price." We both walked away with nothing.
Due to traffic at Tema Station, we showed up an hour late to an International Students Welcome Dinner. It was just fine. We got plenty of good food. Will, one of my friends from UCLA, got up on stage and played trumpet with the band. It was unreal.
With said plans broken, the EAP posse decided to go to Afrodesiac (bastardized spelling I'm sure. Sorry) to celebrate Christina's birthday. Because of the price of drinks, we decided to pregame hard and pay for as few drinks as possible. It was a great night to say the least. Great music, great people, and I was just drunk enough to dance. Never a good thing. Haha.
By the end of the night, one of our compadres, Kevin, had taken a slight beating from his alcohol, so I helped him back. Apparently, I care for drunk people even when I'm drunk myself. Makes no difference to me.
I'm somewhat disappointed that my plans were broken. I was really looking forward to interacting with the Jewish community. Another weekend. I have plenty of reading to do as it is. Maybe it was for the better.
There may be more pictures by the weekend. I will do my best to get them up.
LDG
posted by Lee Gerston at 7:45 PM
1 Comments:
Hey Lee: Quite the adventure. Some bare street scenes remind me of rural Philippines and Thailand. Not your standard homogenous and antiseptic American suburban neighborhood! Hope that you and the rest of your globe hopping friends can congregate in some country at some point during the fall. Take care and enjoy the moment!
Bob and Robert Archibald
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