Ghanian Weekend Une

So here I am again at an Internet cafe excited to share details of my first weekend in Ghana with you all!

It begins on Friday where I sent much of the day walking around the neighbouring town to Amasama which is called 'Feces' in my broken shoes to collect money from debtors! Friday night I couldn't get myself to travel to the local pub with the other volunteers as my legs were killing from the traipsing around on dirt roads! This and the addition of power cut led to me sleeping at around 6pmwhich for the record is the norm around here!

The next morning a fellow volunteer and I commence our journey to the Volta region, the most beautiful part of Ghana where we booked into an environmental lodge for the weekend. Things did not begin smoothly at all! We had the journey from hell! It took us 7hrs without any food, drink, toilet or merely stretching breaks! At one stage we ended up at this ethical enclave kind of place called 'Tudu' which absolutely scared the life out of me. Masses and Masses of people all grabbing you, talking to you and begging you! Anyway 7hrs later we finally arrived at the environmental lodge next to Keta and it is the most beautiful place ever, can't wait to share the photos! This lodge had its own lagoon and a Private white sand beach on the opposite side absolutely gorgeous! We spent Saturday walking along the beach, playing with the hotels pet dogs and meeting the other guests! I will tell you about two of the people I met I think it is worth sharing it! I met a lady whom I vaguely recognised and it turns out she was on the same plane as me and cain as me! Can  you believe in the whole of Ghana I bump into her on her last weekend and we actually remember seeing each other as we were the only two obrunis! Then I met a fellow local called Seth he is a musician and is circa 70 years old! There was a point at which I was left sitting with him and having spent a week in Ghana I knew what was coming next - The marriage question! So I slyly managed to put my ring on the marriage finger and quickly close the conversation by saying I am married. However, he was determined to keep at this topic. I was asked when I got married ? - last year What he does ? - doctor and what he looks like and this is probably the most funniest part I showed a photo of Russell Brand on my phone and said this my husband! I still got lecture though not a very long one about how I need to start having kids because otherwise I will only be left with 4 kids !! Oh what a tradegy!!! I cant help but lol!

Sunday gets better! First off I got a natural blow dry because it is soo windy by the water so I was surprised when my hair was dry in like 1hr!! (still getting used to showering in cold water though!) We took a boat trip on the volta river which is so vast and sooo clean - it is freshwater which I don't know why still shocks me! The boat rise was quite scary for someone who cant swim because you are on a low wooden boat which has an engine so goes pretty fats and you have water spraying you and at times because it is so windy feels like you are about to tip over! It was quite nice though the African drum band came along the boat and playedmsuic which added to the vibe of the place!

The boat ride was followed by lunch at a deserted beach which was so beautiful! I held a living translucent crab, had to pee in a small isolated part of the land and saw fish being caught just to name a few things. This was followed by a swift 4hr journey home. The most entertaining part of the whole day was that I was proposed to not once but twice! One guy called 'Bright' was so sure I would marry him that he went around introducing me as his wife! It was funny because the other volunteer had quite a thing for him! Also,it meant that I never had to carry my heavy bag or anything as he would. (I will be sure to upload my phohoto with him). It doesn't help that I am born on a Wednesday because that is the best day for a women to be born as it Wednesday people are rich, like to cook and are strong meaning they have potential to have loads of kids!!! It was sweet because as I got off the boat on the way out to go back to Pokuase he got the whole African musical band to sing 'Oh Komilla dont gokomilla' which further infurigated the other volunteer lol!!

The second proposal I got came more as a shock to be honest. At Ada, the town we were dropped off at in the volta region we found ourselves having to take plunge and go on this broken 'tro-tro' just to get out of the volta region. Basically as we wrere leaving turns out the guys charged us 10 pesos less and drove us to actually a really good location for getting back to Pokuase and negotiated with another tro-tro a cheaper price(although we disdn't actually travel on that tro-tro!) because he wanted to marry me. What happened is as we were approaching our stop he gives me his number and name - Richard - and says call me when you reach home I will be soo worried so I said yes yes as you do in Ghana and then he in the middle of the tro-tro which was filled with people asks me to marry him!!! It was truly bizarre. Its quite funny and you have take these things with humour when you are here I know past volunteers have got offended but I think you have to just enjoy it!

So I am absolutely exhausted today! recovering from the weekend. Hopefully I will be going to another beach destination this weekend Krokrobite and will have more stories to share. I am feeling a bit homes sick today but that is because the whole day in the office we were listening to BBC World Radio!!! Otherwise I am still really enjoying it and learning more and more about the culture everyday. I am still unable to eat meat or fish here just because I feel like I'm living with the chickens goats dogs cats cows and all kinds of animals so I just cant get myself to eat them! Don't think Ive been vegetarian this long before and I am actually quite enjoying it! See you tomorrow!