The lucky part is,
we didn't have class all last week because the professors called a strike. So
at least I didn't have any notes to make up due to being sick. I think classes
are on again for next week, but I haven't actually heard any news about that lately.
I'm just speculating.
In other news, I got
a care package from my mommy and daddy on Friday! What's bizarre about getting
packages here though is that you have to go to the post office and bargain for
them. Bargaining. At the post office. Where (one would think) prices should be
fixed. Oh, no sir. Not in Ghana. But I failed at bargaining for it anyway. The woman would
not budge, but other people on my program have had varying amounts of luck with
bargaining for theirs. Some people can get it down to about 10 cedis, others
have had to pay really high amounts, like 30 or 40 or more, but I guess it
depends on what the person sent you. But you can bargain it down. I was just
unsuccessful.
So I thought that
process was odd, but bureaucracy seems to work in strange ways
here. It works in strange ways anywhere, I guess, but at least at home we don't
have to bargain when using the postal service. It just makes things a wee bit
more stressful.
But on the bright
side, I redeemed myself and bargained my way to a super cheap cab ride home from downtown Accra afterwards so I was feeling pretty good about that. Until the cab driver turned down the volume of the Nigerian
preacher speaking on the radio so he could give me his own intense 20-minute
lecture about Christianity on the way home, and about how all the muslims and
other various non-believers are going to hell, etc. I just sat quietly. He
didn't really care for my input anyway, and it wouldn't have mattered one way
or the other to tell him what I thought of his rant, so I just let him talk and
talk and talk. And talk. People are very religious here, just in general. And are often very, very outspoken about their beliefs. I can fill an entire blog post
about that subject though. I will eventually. I have yet to attend a church
service here though, so maybe after I find time to do that I will write about
it. It's on my bucket list of things to do here though, because I've heard that
church here is quite the experience.
I don't have much
else to add this time, and this is kind of random, but since I haven't shared much pop culture in a while I'll leave you with another hit song from Ghana. Possibly soon to be a hit in the US? I have no idea, because I don't actually really like this song all that much, but I heard that Kanye just signed this guy onto his record label. This song is called "Oliver Twist." Which I have heard about as much, if not more, than Azonto. (I apologize for the slightly scandalous music video.)
In addition, if anyone reading is a facebook friend of mine, if you want a good laugh, check out the rap my mom wrote and posted on my wall. (May help to read my previous post, if you haven't already.) That is all. And thanks, Mom, haha :)
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