The road to Kumasi is beautiful green and lush, breaking into small towns and villages along the way. Clara and I woke at 5 am and Ninasei took us to the bus station, an area where dozens of buses wait and depart for Kumasi every 30 minutes. Clara found a comfortable bus with A/C, and we left around 6:15. We watched Nigerian and Ghanaian tv on the screen mounted in the front, were treated to a sales pitch from a man who travels the route back and forth to...
The beads made in Krobo are the popular Ghanaian beads you see in shops in the U.S. The market was completely fabulous and fascinating. Row upon row upon row of tables of beads. It was like being a kid in a candy store. They are exquisitely beautiful, and I purchased I don't know how my hundreds of $ worth (ikes!). I haven't quite figured out the conversion but I think I bought $150 worth of beads -- a huge bag at any rate. So, I'll be making lots of jewelry...
Our daily routine: I'm enjoying the food immensely. We usually have toast and tea with evaporated milk for breakfast, basmati rice with a spicey oily red sauce and redehydrated tilapia for lunch, and either the same thing for dinner or some variation. My favorite meal was fried plantains with stirfried carrots, cabbage and peppers with a fried egg! I like fufu very much and the spicey dehydrated fish red sauce.
Bats flitting in the mango tree outside my bedroom window during the night The call to prayers at dawn and dusk from the nearby mosque Music blasting from stereos from all different directions – hiphop, Bob Marley, Afro-pop, Christmas caroles Cocks crowing A morning dove cooing
I woke to a light tap tap tapping sound outside my door and the sound of small voices talking. I was in a deep slumber with my ear plugs in, but somewhere in the depths of unconscious I was roused and popped the plugs out and heard a small voice saying, "We want to meet you!"
