In Ghana

Silence can scream
-(someone? maybe me? probably not?)

So i'm in Ghana now and its amazing. Just a little pre note i'm probably going to spelling a lot of places and names wrong but it's because i'm not going back to correct because at the internet place i'm in they tend to loose power and i loose the things i'm writing (i've learned from this the hard way). So we landed some days ago and lost one bag (still haven't found it yet keep your fingers crossed that they do). Coming to airport was awesome. Caitlin was the first person to be asked for marriage. He asked me if she was my wife and when i said no he said (this was the guy at the bagge claims), "Let me ask you a question, would you like to be my brother in law?" It was hilarious, she got hit on at least 2-3 more times before we left. Now i know this sounds crude but people never meant it in a demaning way and when they do we'll now the difference. I got on too a couple days later, "My husband come here."I'm also getting some rasta reffernces,"Hey white Rasta" or Ganagster references "Hey g,g, yo g wut up(that one cracked us up)" I think i'll stick with the Rasta. Anyways we came out of the airport and there was huge groups of people on both the left and right sides being held back by security bars. It was crazy just walking down the centre, right smack dab in the middle of everything. Some man came up to me and we talked. He asked where i was from if i was Christian (we were being picked up by sister bernadette) and other questions. Then out of nowhere he asked for a tip. Strange espcially since he didn't do anything. I just shrugged it off. The ride to the Salvation army was amazing. The way we drive in Canada, not for Ghana. People drive really fast and are constatnly using their horns. It's not out of anger or frustration like we do in Canada(well some times it is), it's to let other cars know that your passing or to let people walking on/near the roades they're coming behind them. Either way the driving here is fast, vicious and much more fun and way better scenerary than Canada(not knocking you Canada but i've seen you for 19 years). So we got to the Salvation army and we were introduced Jackson and Eric brohters. Jackson was the one who would be taking us around town. After they left we went to get water but they were out. Instead of them getting it for us we said we would get it ourselves. One of the guards (Lehmos? we were never sure of what his name was) decided to take us into town. First he took us to a restaurant to get bottled water but we said we wanted satchet water (they're small plasitc bags 500ml that you bite a tiny bit off from one of the corners and drink). He took us to a local area were there was food and water and lots of different things to buy. We bought a bag of satchets (30 satchets ) for 80 pesoas(old currency is 8000) which is about 80 cents. Then we got some food to eat, rice and chicken. They served us spoons but we told them we wanted to eat with our hands, like Ghanians. She smiled and laughed then got us a bowl of water to wash our hands. When you eat, it's always with your hands(just about always) and with your meal they bring a bowl of water to wash before and after the meal. The food was so delicious and had a spice to it. Every meal has spicyness to it and i'm pround to say i can eat whole pepe or two or three seeds and all and not be bothered by it. I love spicy so much now and i'm glad that a couple months pryere to coming i decided to start adding hot sauce to most of my meals. I'm pretty sure if I didn't do that it would have been a lot harder.

The next day when we went to get breakfast with Jackson we ate cocoa pouridge(yes this one was spicy too, although every time we've had it after it hasn't been). It was really refreshing and we were told is had some medicinal purposes too. That day was the first time we took a trotro. A trotro can go just around town or you can go to the bigger bus stations to get on the longer ones that ride for hours. They're usually vans but they but in extra seats so they can fit more people. We've been in one with close to or just over 20 people. They're awesome. Anyways I need to go now but i'll be back tomorrown or the next day, thanks to Maria (shout out to Maria). Thank you so much for setting me up with the college application to Kings( affliatie of Western Ontario Unversity in London for those who don't know). I'll try to do the application here and e-mail you soon. Thanks to everyone for reading and to everyone whos been sending messages. PEACE.