all things gold....

A list of all things golden in Ghana-

I saw Beauty and the Beast performed at the drama department two weekends ago. The golden moment was seeing my friends dressed up like silverware and my friend Phillip playing the town drunk. Two other golden moments in the play were, the attempted british accents and my friend Ernest playing the most perfect Ghanian Gaston imaginable. Other than that the play was kind of laughable (and sadly not in a good way.) Also audience participation is something that Americans just don't understand, and thus we bash it, but more on that later.

Another Golden Moment of Ghana, or moments, are the pool parties! Ghanians love to go to a hotel for the afternoon and just pay to use the pool, and I don't blame them. You get to to sit around a beautiful pool, swim, drink and eat good food and generally forget that you are in a mass polluted third world city. If you get the chance i would highly recomend trying it. I got to accompany friends and the other players of Beauty and the Beast to the cast party at the Airport West Hotel Pool.

That same weekend (02/20/2010) I saw the Vagina Monolouges. That was a wonderful Golden and progressive moment for Ghana; however, the audience (the night i went) was the greatest gathering of white people I had seen in my time in Ghana since my last group outting. Also it amazed me that they put a butch character on the stage (GHANA IS HOMOPHOBIC) but the director removed the lesbian monolouge from the play. Things to think about... thanks Ghana.
Something Golden... VM had a soundtrack and a slide show included.

As of Monday I was so full of golden moments, some of which I have not mentioned yet, but Monday and Wed. brought even more.

Monday I found out that i have two internships one working at the orphange, which is reading to kids and giving them attention, helping with spelling and sounding out words and simple math. these kids are GOLD my new favorite there is named Isaac and he is a goofy six year old boy who likes to read and play and is a general monkey kid but super sweet.

I also am teaching dance at an afterschool program called Hop Inn and it will be my job to make a sustainable dance class/ program there through advertising, class demand etc.

GOLD MOMENT... they sell deep fried BATS at the Market, and people eat COW SKIN which looks like a chew toy you give to a dog.

GOLDEN THING... people wear dresses made out of fabrics with lights, birdcages, high heels and other random objects printed on them, in entertaining colors.

Gold... people drink ice cream, juice, water, yogurt, and other things out of plastic bags that you rip a hole in the corner of with your teeth.

all for now and more later.