• I learned that when you’re bringing a newborn home from the hospital, you can make your own special “Baby on Board” signal by tying a white towel on each of your car’s side mirrors and a white handkerchief on the radio antenna. Yeah, I’m silly but this totally tickled me!
• I had pizza with chicken, minced meat, and kpakpo shito – only in Ghana! Eye de papa!
• For any event in Ghana, whether it’s a funeral or a wedding, you have to expand your “guest list” exponentially b/c I’ve been to about 3 weddings and a funeral now and people show up who are definitely not invited.
• When people wear jeans that are hipsters or low rides, you say “I’m aware” in reference to both the people themselves or the style of exposing your underwear/butt
• This is less interesting and more ANNOYING: Parking Officials can do as they please (puncture your tire, insult you, practically attack you physically etc.) without fear b/c it takes more time and way more money for you to file a complaint and go to court. Like the incidence with the police officers last year, this airport parking incidence for Nii and I this year gave me even less hope in authority figures here in Ghana b/c corruption and extortion seem to be the order of the day and there definitely is no “working within the system”!
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