Cool Mornings -- Crazy Hot Afternoons -- Rains all Evening Long
I did some laundry this morning, just a little bit, but it's been a while so I got my knuckles all cut up again since they aren't used to being rubbed. It was too hot outside so I did my laundry in the shower.
We had class this afternoon. I taught the ladies some tongue twisters using smaller words so that they could practice seeing them in full sentences. Our class usually goes until 5 o'clock but at about 10 to 5, the women started getting ansy and looking out the window. I didn't really notice until Auntie Julie just stopped everything and started the closing prayer. I looked outside and the sky was BLACK.
When it rains in Ghana, people go crazy. The women all jumped up and booked it for the road to get home before the rain came. Of course, all the taxis were full because other people were also trying to get home and it would be the END OF THE WORLD if they got caught in the rain.
Petra and I enjoyed a nice walk home as it started to spit lightly while everyone else ran. We can generally walk faster than they can run sometimes, so we weren't in the rain that long.
Packs of school children were hoping the back of people's trucks as they came down the road so that they didn't have to walk.
You can see the sky getting dark |
Auntie Joe was sitting under the porch of her store talking to Auntie Julie and waving a stick. We asked her what she was doing and she explained that the school children like to come by and throw rocks at the ripe mangoes. This causes all the other mangoes that aren't riped yet to fall and she doesn't like that. So she waves her stick, threatening to beat them with it if they come and steal mangoes.
The children know that they are faster than she is though and so they just run onto the lawn, take the mangoes that are already on the ground and make a run for it as she comes after them. It's pretty hilarious.
Mangoes |
I was also eating crackers while I was dancing. Auntie Joe said this, "that is why your stomach is big, you are eating the whole package of crackers." Thanks Auntie Joe. Just because Ghanaians don't eat snacks, doesn't mean I am fat.
hahahah - too funny! It is true though - I don't recall ever 'snacking' the way I do here in Canada. Snack was usually banana's and peanuts but I didn't do sweet stuff! I love the rain and I so get you dancing in it...even if you look silly!
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