told you i was bad at this..

happy monday!

the weekend was fun- franklin and sandra and i went out friday night and met some fun people.. still not quite used to the.. let's say.. forwardness of african men. haha. but it was fun.
church yesterday. sweet jeepers. i mean.. these people go to church. service is at least 2 hours long and the worship gets down right rowdy- people dancing and jumping and clapping.. the music is so loud you can't even hear yourself, let alone the person next to you.. so good voice or bad you can sing as loud as you can. haha. it's just nice not to feel.. i can't describe it. you never feel like people are looking at you, or that you're supposed to be doing a certain thing, or that certain things are frowned upon.. everyone is so caught up in praising God that it doesn't matter what you do- because no one notices anyone else. they know a lot of our old school praise songs.. so it's been a fun blast from the past at church and on the radio. the service is in 2 languages- the pastor preaches in english and then there's a translator to the local language. the whole place is alive..

i learned how to make fufu on saturday. :) you take plantains and mash them with the biggest morter and pistol i've ever seen until it's like a dough, and then you do the same thing to yams, and then you mash them together.. and there you go! serve with peanut soup- which has nothing to do with peanuts- and you have a traditional ghanaian favorite. sandra says everyone loves to eat it but no one likes to make it because it takes so long and it's hard to make the dough. last night evelyn and i walked down to one of the shops and bought local chocolate- they say it's milk chocolate.. but it tastes like it's halfway inbetween milk and dark.. it's really good though.. i'll have to see about bringing some home.

just hanging out at the office- half day today. we didn't get here until about noon.. haha. not a bad way to start the week.

:)