weekenders

Hey loves,
I figured it was about time for another post (mainly b/c I'm bored and have time). Not much has happened since the last one. I finished my first week of school. I'm sort of scared about African Music and Dance b/c we're going to have to get up in front of the entire school and perform!! At least I'll be getting credit for it at Trinity and I won't ever see most of these people again. I'm really excited about my Leadership Seminar. We get more information about the community service requirement tomorrow. My Africana classes with our African-American professor should be quite interesting, but I'll try to suffer through. Hopefully the readings will help with the discussions. I also start my Twi (pronounced: chwee) language classes tomorrow! Now I can understand what everyone is saying!!
This weekend was a weekend of learning experiences. I sort of learned how to wash my clothes by hand on Friday. I don't think I rinsed them well enough, but oh well. I'll learn. After that, 5 of us CIEE girls went to Frankie's (a very popular restaurant/bakery/ice cream shop) for dinner. On the way there, we were followed by sketchy Ghanaian boys for a long time. They kept telling us we were like angels and proposing. I got annoyed b/c they wouldn't stop, but oh well. I also had my first encounter with a street urchin. At first I thought he just wanted to play, but a guy came over to disengage him from my leg and told me he was begging for money. It made me sad b/c the kid was too cute. He followed us for awhile too. After dinner, we got ready to go out with some Ashesi guys that we've met. They took us to this popular club that unfortunately is frequented by a ton of European tourists. It was absolutely packed and everyone was sweating a ton. Gross. I jumped in the shower immediately when we got home.
On Saturday, Holly and I went grocery shopping with 2 Ashesi boys. It's helpful going with Ghanaians b/c they can make sure the cabfare is fair. I owe her money b/c my stupid credit card won't work at an ATM and credit card fraud is wraught here so I refuse to use it as that. We ended up cooking dinner that night. It was exciting. We introduced our apartment-mates and CIEE girls from the north to breakfast tacos. Yum! I've also decided that toast with nutella is heaven. In return, when the Ghanaians cooked, they let me try their yams and garden-egg stew. I ended up watching movies on Akousea's computer with a bunch of people all night. Disturbia freaked me out. Maba (my Ethiopian apartment-mate) got really freaked out too. haha.
Today will just be a relaxing day of reading for class. I have a ton to do, so it should be fun. Tonight we have our Akwaaba (welcome) dinner. They will serve us real Ghanian food and we get to watch traditional African dances. I'm excited. The food here is amazing.

Everything is going really well. I've been making sure to stay out of trouble and ignore all of the sketchy guys that like American girls. Most of the CIEE students are trying to avoid sitting near each other in class so we can get to know other Ashesi students. Most of them here are either Ghanaian or Nigerian, although we have some from Ethiopia, Mali, Togo, and various other African countries. I'll try to update again soon! Hope everything is going well back home and the election coverage isn't getting too grating. :)

Love love love from Africa!!