I miss fall right now... all the little things. i went to a sports bar last night and we watched the arizona baltimore game. we had the smaller tv and couldn't hear the game because they were also playing soccer on the biggest screen and most of the people in this country would much rather watch that. it was nice though, it made me miss stupid little things of home though and my dad. not that i have ever been one to watch a lot of football on tv but last night really made me think of home and how football is just there and a part of life and when i am home on sundays doing laundry a game is on. aly said it is starting to smell like fall, i miss that smell. i am not homesick or anything, just little things about home i have been thinking about. i think mountain heritage day was this weekend as well. i am such a mountain girl hehehe.
things are great here though, reall really frickin hot but good. i went up to kakum this weekend to the rain forrest and i had a blast. we went camping in the park and had the whole place to ourselves. that night we had to walk half an hour to the next village for food and we played with the kids (about 40) for a couple of hours until the sun went down and we were lead to a little guesthouse where ms.gina made us dinner and we visited with all of her family. i think michael will put up photos from that soon. the next morning our guide sampson came and got up from our campsite at 5 in the morning and we started our hike. we hiked over to the canopy walk and got to watch the sunrise from about 100 feet up or so on rope bridges and tree platforms, it was sooo beautiful. then we just hiked the ebony trail, and overall, it was awesome. then we went and saw the slave castles of cape coast and elimina. it was a very eerie experience and i really learned a lot from it. yesterday was a pretty chill day with a lot of card playing, shopping (tons of yummy fresh food now), and then the game last night followed by movie night at that restaurant where they showed knocked up.
so this morning we went for our run at 630 and it was already super hot but i had a good run. 50 spf sunblock all over already and it is only 830. i am doing some homework here on the computer and stuff and then i have dance class followed by laundry time. after that i am going to my conflicts in african states class and then we are making dinner.
oh yea, and i went to church yesterday morning because i am trying that as part of my cultural experience here. i have to say, it was nuts. it was a new pentecost church and they were just yelling and screaming and talking about god is gonna make you rich and strange stuff, it made me appreciate some of the churches at home and around school that still understand that christianity isn't about money. it was totally evangelical and all about asking new members to put a lot of money into the offering and support all of these rural evangelical projects that they were doing but i really didn't agree with anything they wanted to do. part of the service was in twi and the other part was totally like american contemporary stuff... just strange to me.
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