Weekend

Another week goes by! This week was full of work. At one of my ministries we just got a new office building and the internet doesn't work well, so it makes it difficult both to do work and to procrastinate work. :) One of our projects, a building project for a Ministry seems to be getting on track and that's very exciting! It's going to be alot of work, but it'll be a historic project to be involved in!

Today is our official day off and it was pretty low key, but I did go to lunch with a friend to a new restaurant outside of town which had a better view than food I think! They insisted on paying and later were discussing the price in Arabic... I guess they don't know how much I understand... but it was WAY to expensive for what it was and I felt bad, though I offered to pay at the time. Generosity and hospitality here is ubiquitous, even when its ridiculous. The cost of food is one of those unexpected costs here. Salaries are not that high and groceries aren't all that expensive, but restaurant food is exorbitantly expensive! A normal meal (nothing special, chicken, fries, etc) will run you $20-$30. Don't get me wrong there is cheap street food (not cheap by Ghanaian standards, but you can get a shwama for about $2). I don't know how anyone getting paid what the majority gets paid can eat out, much less pay for others!

After lunch we went to a new park that just opened about a month ago and its beautiful! Lots of fountains and waterfalls and bridges and flowers and paths, they did a very nice job. I'll have to go back with a camera. So the company was nice, the landscape was nice and I saw quite a few surprising things at this park. Friday is the most popular day for everyone to go out walking, and everyone appears to be well aware that its see and be seen. Women and men alike are wearing their best clothes (while I certainly was not...), fully made up and carting along the whole family. Or couples were holding hands or arms entwined, something I've been noticing more and more lately... and that I find almost shocking for the area (not bad, just shocking)! However, the most shocking thing came when we were walking out, a young man pranced in fully made up, he had on mascara and tons of foundation and blush... I had no idea it was ok to be that openly homosexual here. He's definitely the first one I've seen here, but to be that open about it really surprised me. Good for him!

Tomorrow a last minute exursion was planned, so I'll actually have something interesting to write about and have new pictures! So expect an update soon!