A Few Things Learned

June 24, 2010 A few things learned so far in Ghana:


I smell completely different over here. You know when you stick your finger in your belly button and it has that belly button smell? Yeah, even that’s different over here…I checked today. I (and all the other obrunis) smell sour. I guess cause we sweat a lot and maybe all the different food, aka carbs…I think we might be fermenting.

You spend at least 30 minutes of every day talking about poop with no less than 4 different people. It’s very important.

You chew carefully for bones even when you are eating a dish that contains no meat, because fish bones end up in the weirdest places.

You don’t even expect to get a cold drink anymore.

You don’t get excited to eat, you just do it because you have to.

There is no such thing as being politically correct in Ghana. You is what you is.