Here is a List of things commonly done, seen or felt in Ghana:
1. Getting anything i could ever need from a top the head of a women ( and i mean anything-food, drink, toys, razors, toothpaste, sewing machines, chickens (alive), ect.)
2. Having a simple hand signal tell a driver where you are going
3. LOUD MUSIC AT ALL TIMES OF DAY AND NIGHT
4. Sleeping under a mosquito net
5. Cooking three meals a day....everyday
6. Wondering what type of meat i am Really eating....cause you just never really know here
7. Drinking water out of a plastic bag.....usally bought from a top someone head...avalable EVERYWHERE in Ghana
8. Babys slung on the back of everyone women, being help up by some miracle of cloth twists
9. Using powder milk for everything...
10. Perfecting my dutch oven temps...harder than it sounds
11. Getting into a car and never knowing how fast your going because no instruments work
12. Fitting 8 people in a car....a regular sized sedan...Talk about getting close to your neighboor
13. Being called white person in 57 differnt languages
14. Getting treated differnetly because i am white
15. All food either being bland or spicey
16. Seeing breasts ALL the time
17. Being called beautiful and than proposed to daily
18. Emonional swings with out being hormonal
19. Never being truly clean
20. Seeing the Brittish spelling of words
21. Being worken up by roosters, guina fowl, African doves, and small childern most mornings
22. Making the perfect egg sammie and than showing it off to everyone
23. Sitting and doing nothing for hours, just watching and listening
24. Greeting everyone you see, meet, look in the eyes
25. Being asked by childern and adults alike for money or food or toys ALL the time because im white and rich.....so not true!
So those are just a few of things that i thought might be an intresting insight into my Ghanaian Life.
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