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March 5, 2010, Travel
Postcards from Abroad:Ghana
Life in Ghana for an American student can be crazy, find out how Chrissy Fritisch is dealing with the different culture.
Jan. 27, 2010
Today I had class all day, which basically means I have 3 classes-my spanish class that I just sit in on, my working with people with HIV/AIDS class, and then I was supposed to go to my dance class, but we had to go to our Twi (the local dialect) class instead. I just got my fake braids taken out of my hair since they were itchy and sliding out anyway. Rachael and Paula helped me take them out, and they only took about an hour and a half to do so.
I lost so much of my real hair in the whole braiding process, but I don't really care since less hair means less frizz and less hot. It also monsooned again today-the rain in Ghana comes out of nowhere-the sky just becomes super dark, and then it pours. It's over with a couple hours later, and the sky looks like it hadn't rained at all!
On Monday, Heather and I went to the wrong class for working with working with communities, a
nd then had to awkwardly get up in front of everyone and walk out. Luckily there were some nice girls in the class that thought we were in the wrong class, since they were freshman, and no one really studies abroad their freshman year. When we went to the correct class, the professor never came, and the TA told us that the prof could not meet at that time. So, this meant all 40 of us trying to decide on a time that worked well for all of us. This did not work (duh!), so they said that we would decide next Monday what time would work best. So, we never had class!
Photo by Chrissy Fritisch
On Tuesday, my women and children's rights class got moved to a different building farther away, so we walked all the way there, and then there were no open rooms for our class to be held, so we all walked back to the original building. There, the professor read the Ghanaian constitution to us for the whole hour and a half! Needless to say, I am dropping that class, not only for the boringness of it, but because then I can always go to my Twi class. Today I also did my laundry again, but the blue laundry soap I was using turned my white clothes yellow, so I had to use Heather's yellow soap to get them out. I'm still really confused. I think next time I do laundry I will be taking it to the washers in the other international dorm for the laundry staff to do it for a small fee. Tonight we also went to the pizza place for 2 for 1 pizzas, and this time they were the best they had ever been!