8/26

On Friday I only had one class at 930am and after I went to a vegetable market with a couple of friends.  I bought lettuce, carrots, avocado, bell peppers, onions, and potatoes, The woman was so sweet and gave me a free pineapple for buying from her.  I was so excited to have some vegetables since I haven’t seen much on my plate since I left America!  I made a yummy salad when I got back to my hall and it never tasted so good!  At nighttime some Ghanaian friends took us out to dinner at a really nice restaurant/club called Bella Roma.  It was Italian food and SOOOO good!!  We had a few different kinds of pizza and some garlic bread.  The pizza and garlic bread here are much different from back home.  The garlic bread was very thin like a tortilla and the pizza was also really thin.  I wasn’t even full afterwards because im so used to thick pizza!  I got a text message today from my friend Anowa (who I stayed with in Tema a couple weekends ago) asking me if I was busy tomorrow night since they were going out to dinner in Accra for her mum’s birthday and I was invited.  I said of course I would love to go, and when I asked who was all going she said “ just me, my mum and sister…meaning you are practically family!”.  This made me really happy and I honestly do feel like they are my family now.

8/27

This morning I woke up and put my not so great cooking skill to work.  I peeled (with a knife since we have no peeler, which was a lot of work!) and cut up a bunch of potatoes, cut some onions and bellpeppers to fry in the frying pan and make homefries.  They turned out so good and I was so excited!   I didn’t do much today…slept in, walked to the bush canteen (like an outside market on campus) to buy Auntie Christie a birthday card for tonight.  We went out to dinner at a Chinese food restaurant, which was really good!  I had such a good time with them at dinner and really felt like I was part of their family!  I just relaxed and watched a movie when I got back to my room.  The weather has been quite weird lately…its been overcast and sprinkling all day…im not complaining!!!.  At nighttime it was actually raining the hardest it has since ive been here!

8/28

I made my homefries again this morning with some eggs and it was a great breakfast!  I peeled and cut a bunch of potatoes to have ready when I want them in the mornings.  This was definitely a lot of work and took a long time.  I did a lot of reading today since I haven’t really been doing much for school…sometimes I forget that’s why im actually here! For dinner I made pasta and attempted making pasta sauce for the first time ever.  I sautéed onions and garlic and then added some tomato sauce.  It turned out not too bad…but I was starving so anything would have been good at that point! I also made a salad and some toast.  It was really nice having a full meal and actually being full afterwards! Ive found myself not really being completely full here after I eat and im constantly wanting to eat something.