Well, I am starting a blog here for my second trip to Ghana
ok so I am going to write a little bit about the culture and the people. It is very hard to take at first here are some observations:
1. People are very very pushy! they are money hungry and won't stop until they get something out of you! They grab you, touch you, and yell things at you to get your attention, and if you... look at them or acknowladge them then they will never go away! (yesterday I got so frustrated with one of these people because even screaming no leave me alone wasn't working, so i said if I give you 5 cedis will you go away? and he said yes so i gave him the money and he left . . . totally worth 5 cedis).
1. People are very very pushy! they are money hungry and won't stop until they get something out of you! They grab you, touch you, and yell things at you to get your attention, and if you... look at them or acknowladge them then they will never go away! (yesterday I got so frustrated with one of these people because even screaming no leave me alone wasn't working, so i said if I give you 5 cedis will you go away? and he said yes so i gave him the money and he left . . . totally worth 5 cedis).
2. people are not very polite in getting your attenton here, they just yell "pssstt, psssst" at you like you're an animal or something (I do NOT lke this, and I will never respond to this)
3. People come up to talk to you in the streets and try to be your friends but from what i have noticed, they always want something out of you . . . whether they are hitting on you or they are looking for money!
4. We have gotton rudely laughed at more than once since we have been here, and it seems this usually happens when we ask for help, we have learned however that this is just what they do when their english is very poor and they can't communicate what they want to say. A defense mechanism really.
5. People litter all over the place, there is garbage everywhere :( Very big problem in Ghana, also the gutters on the streets are open and smelly!
6. everyone here calls tourists obrouni (this is what you hear shouted at you when you walk down the streets) Obrouni translates into "white man" I don't mind this as much because it is meant in a friendly way.
7. Time and scheduling means nothing to them, this is the whole "Ghana Maybe Time" concept . . .. very frustrating to get used to because it seems like they just don't care about much, they do it's just that they are very laid back.
8. Men are very very pushy when flirting, which they do alot . . . I have gotton proposed to 5 times now, and very inappropriately talked to more than I can count!
9. Women who sell things always carry their products on their heads, and also a very common place to see this and any type of selling is at intersections, they try to sell things to people in parked cars! You buy through the window!
So instead of working at the radio station I have been teaching music at a preschool up the road from me in the mornings, and I am absolutely LOVING it!! The kids are sooo adorable (and they love my camp songs I have been teaching them) :)
-- There you go that's a little bit of what I wrote the first time I was here :)
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