Only in Ghana

well, maybe not only in Ghana, but....close enough.

• Crazy Trotro Rides


• Fan Ice!! eating contest


• Drinking water out of plastic pouches


• Saying "What will you take" instead of "What do you want to eat"


• Akwaaba and speaking in Twi


• Extreme Friendliness: little children, old people, you name it


• Obroni!!!


• Sleeping without covers every night


• Water and power outages simultaneously


• Flipflops= slippers


• NO short shorts in public (or if your Ghanaian= "hot pants")


• Hand washing everything


• little geckos in your shower


• Every other shop named after God or Jesus EX. God is Great Fast Food; It is Jesus Hair Salon


• Peace and Love Orphanage and Acadamy


• Having to go to an internet cafe


• First homesickness ever


• Cold showers every day and occasionally bucket showers


• Second Chance TV Novella: Spanish soap opera, dubbed in English, played in ghana!! ahaha


• Hilariously dramatic Nigerian movies


• 1 DVD with 20 or more dance/cheer themed movies on it (or any other theme you can think of)


• No drinking water from the tap, obroni


• Malaria pills and mosquito repellent


• Having to bargain for almost EVERYTHING


• Never being on time, always late by at least an hour


• A whole new family


• Not being able to understand their accents


• Being called "fat" is a compliment


• Heavy food!!!


• Eating everything with sauce, meat at every meal. fufu, yam, potato, rice!!!


• Spicy!! Deep fried stuff, fish head, goat skin?? chicken gizzard........


• surprisingly not eating that much fruit at home......but delicious mangos, pineapple, you name it off the street


• Taxi and trotro people trying to get you into their car


• Never static hair, always sticky/damp/sweaty skin


• small dogs


• football!!! everywhere


• little beggar children from Niger at our trotro stop that we fed mangos and taught how to play thumb wars


• Colorful shops and clothes


• Getting stared at wherever you go


• Pouring down rain 1 minute and 5 minutes later not being able to tell it even rained


• Really bad roads


• trash everywhere, even the beach


• Mirinda soda and Maltas


• Feet that are never quite clean


• Trotro= Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland+ Knight Bus from Harry Potter


• Actually needing coin money more than big bills


• cheap clothes!! cheap lots of stuff


• Sadly not much cool wildlife (but only cuz i was in Accra, a huge city)


• No seat belts


• Ghanaian Prom!!: starts at 6pm, no one show up till at least 9pm, party doesn't get going till 9:30pm, no dancing till 10pm, leave at 11:30!!!


• the gesture for "come" is backwards


• Obroni tax: Vendors trying to rip you off cuz your white


• Trotro mates calling "AccraAccraAccraaaa" or "CircleCirclecirclecircaciracace" or "AdentaAdentaAdenta"


• Little kids making you join their jumping game called Ampe


• Fried Chicken and rice for lunch and dinner constantly on our touring week


• Canopy walk!!

Shop Names: Jesus is Awesome Fast Food; The Blood of Jesus Fashion; God is Great Chemicals; It Is Jesus______; God is Love Automotive Repairs; Blow Master Limited (air conditioning!)