Relaxing Weekend

The weekend consisted of no trips outside of town. Saturday morning I walked over to the small salon by the junction we walk to and from every day. I got half my head braided (well more like ¼). Angelina caught up with me at the salon and then we headed over to town to meet up with Esther in her shop. Our taxi driver ended up around the market area, which was not at all were we told him to go. I recognized were we were so we just got off there and walked along past the shops, keeping our eyes open for Ghana jerseys. Apparently, after visiting and asking in many shops, there are no more Ghana jerseys and they won’t be getting any more. We walked to our favorite egg sandwich spot and hungrily watched as the lady buttered up all sides of thick slices of bread that would then be pressed down and completed with Laughing Cow cheese (the only cheese we’ve seen in Ghana) and a fried egg. Mmmm… complete deliciousness.

            Eventually we made it to Esther’s shop. We spent most of the afternoon there, hanging out with her and her two workers as they fixed a couple of dresses for us (another seamstress had made them for us and she unfortunately did not do a great job). We had a good time, talking, laughing, eating corn, and entertaining one of her workers’ daughters, Sophia (pronounced Sof-eye-a).

Haha, my favorite picture so far :)

Sophia, quite a handful.

       The rest of Saturday night and all of Sunday we stayed in. Angelina wasn’t feeling very well, as though her body was fighting back an incoming cold, so she needed to rest up. It was great to just stay home and relax. I slept in and then read for the rest of the morning. After lunch, I sat down with Wallace and his laptop in the dining room to answer a lot of questions he had about the internet, software, programs, his printer, etc… He was surprised at my patience to sit with him for over 3 hours and was grateful for helping him out. He has internet connectivity through a USB drive, and although it is a slower connection we managed to do a lot with it. Our next lesson is how to use his scanner (he has a printer/scanner) to scan family photos and put them on his computer. We tried downloading Skype, but the internet connection was too slow, so he’ll have to go to an internet café to download it so I can teach him to use that as well. Kristin, co-founder of Global Mamas now living in Minnesota, lived with the Kwaws while she was in the Peace Corps in Ghana. The Kwaws love her dearly and consider her their daughter, so I told Wallace about Skype and he is excited to try it out.

            The laid back weekend is what we needed to rest up for the following weekend. We are going to travel north to Mole. The journey will take a day and a half and we will end up in the savanna. Apparently baboons and other animals frequently visit the hotel where we will be staying. It will truly be one of the biggest adventures I have embarked on, and the journey to our destination and finding where to sleep will be adventure enough in itself.