|
| This past weekend we had what some of us call, "nights without morals"
this entails getting super dressed up and going to Swankest clubs and
getting all VIP and free alcohol and being with the RICH ass ghanians,
those in the gold and jewel buisness, music artists, and just random
rich people. I have not done many of these but this past weekend i did
and it was insane. We got into the "Invitation only, Black Party at
Boomerang" because we know the part owner... because we are American is
the only reason for this. However we just go in, don't pay or anything
didn't have invitations, just walk stright up and into VIP where we
just hang out for a while. It was here that i spotted my first
androgonous (spelling?) female here. She was wearing a gap shirt
and loose jeans, mens clothing, with short dreds to the ALL BLACK
party. and she was with 2 super hot girls. I was super intersted in her
because these women are NOT common here AT ALL. So i knew she was a
lesbian.. i just knew haha. So as we got more and more faded, off of
Courviser and Henessey (which we get for free, by the bottle because
they don't sell drinks.. only bottles.. last time the girls went they
got a bottle of Crystal!) my ~interest~ you could say, in her
increased. So as we're walking out, its like 5 30ish in the morning and
i'm like WAIT I HAVE TO TALK TO HER.. So i did and basically she
doesn't really speak english, she's from Cote dIvore, (next to Ghana
but really politically unstable. in very bad shape).. and YES SHE IS A
LESBIAN. so my drunk ass is all over her and says OH I AM TOO!! AHHHH
WHYYYY did i do that?? because i was in the moment like douche haha. So
she say's "Well i need your number" so i give it to her. She called
like 4 hours later... And has been calling since then.. That is how i
met Koko. Now what happens?.?.
| | |
| Last week was our friend Pema's birthday. We went to this upscale bar which actually had mixed drinks!! It was so fun, we were all throughly faded when some 3 of our friends got arreseted. They had gone to smoke around the corner. IT was super scary we had to find money to bail them out of African jail, wich ended up being almost $600, when the police had originally said 1,000. Luckly we had some rich Ghanaian guys with us who bargened down. BUT holy shit, its hard to remember sometimes what is legal and illegal since the police are so scarce here. It's so different, you get arrested and then pay them off. No record at all. Kind of a little taste of reality there, I don't know how long i would even stay alive in an African Jail, being white and being a woman. BUT the mere thought scares the shit out of me so.... no more smoking in public thank you very much.
I come home in exactly one month. AACK! | | |
| On Sunday a group of us went to a HUGE concert on this beach. It was
pretty awesome meaning so fucking rad. The headliners were Wayne WOnder
and Kevin Little (tempted to touch and such amazing dance songs) well
it was quite an expierence. In Ghana there are about 15 hip life songs
whcih are playing ALL THE TIME and they 're all really really good but
it's always the same ones. AND all those people were at this show on
the beach. So we dont know who the artists are but then they keep
suprising us with our favorite songs it was pretty crazy. Then they're
getting ready for Kevin Little to go on, and the Power goes out. There
are thousands and thousands of poeple so of course being white we put
up are guards and people start fucking with us, i end up getting up in
some guys face who keeps taking pictures of me it got pretty crazy. So
a few of us are like ok, lets go this is going to get too crazy. But
then the power goes back on so we decided to stay. We're pretty close
to the front and i'm a paranoid one so i start looking for places to
get out if shit goes crazy. So he does on and starts to do one song and
then the douche bag says "Everyone come closer to the stage, I can't
see my Ghanian brothers and sisters" Ok the stage is being guraded by
police with guns in riot gear (there are not so many concerts in
Ghana). So we're like fuck this is crazy but we can't really get out.
So we get pushed up. One song plays when all of a sudden fights start
breaking out and the crowd gets to close to the staget that we think
people started getting pushed under the stage. So we're like ok fuck
this we're going out when the crowd starts getting pushed back like
crazy we're getting pushed and now we're all getting grabbed and it's
just insane, if i would have fallen i would have gotten trampled to
death i feel. Then the guardes brought out biting police dogs. DOGS!
luckly nithya and i didn't see them but the other girls almost got
bitten by them; they were the crowd control, just bring out attack dogs
you know.. WTF man it was crazy and really really fucking scary. After
that Nithya and i were the only ones who stayed with some Ghanian
friends who acted stright up as our body guards, which was needed. It
was really really fun and you all know how much i love concerts, and
this one was quite an expierence. Africa is crazy.......!
| | |
| So 4 of us girls go to Rasta night at this beach resort. There are very few girls there so we are totally swarmed by men. It was really fun and also really not fun and super overwhelming. We left at like 2ish and we get this cab who is parked and we're going on the road and he's swerving all over the road. I yell at him to stop swerving and he like winces. A few mintues later we roll off the road into a totally deserted area. He says there's no gas and he is almost unable to walk aruond the car. He was so fucking drunk. So we're like ummm this is not ok so he gets back in the car and we go like 5 feet and he can't really drive so we're like we're getting another cab and he gets pissed and says we're not paying him enough so i get in his face and yell at him. It was super scary. Literally every day i almost get either hit by a car or get in like a million accidents. If i get hurt or somthing here it will be in a car accident, which is really scary. I can't wait to go home and drive with people who are good drivers or even just average because here it is so crazy that if my mom knew how it was she would want me to come home right now. I miss comforts of life. There hasn't been running water for more than a few hours in a row for about 2 weeks. Girls pee in the showers and the toilets are swarming with flies and it's sooo fucking gross. I just want a shower. Oh i miss feeling clean.. | | |
| what happens when your across the world and you re-examine every aspect
in your life and what comes out is different that you ever expected.
The things i'm thinking about mylife, myself, other people, the world
in general and just world issues are taking on a whole new viewpoint.
These thoughts scare the shit out of me and i know i'm changing as a
person in huge ways. I never imagined it would be like this. This isn't
fun a good amount of the time and i miss a lot but i know now that i
can get by without it and its not a big deal. I don' know what i'm
trying to say but that some crazy shit is happening inside me and
freaking me out. The other EAPers are expierencing this all in
different ways which is also so intersting to observe. But all in all i
can't wait to come home and share all these memories and thoughts with
my best friends. I miss you all and love you so much.
| | |
|
|
