Today(Friday 6/17/2016)
I have been so blessed, since I coming to Ghana I have had so many tasty foods! They do like hot(spicy) foods, and only once was it really too HOT for me, yet I was able to finish it! We eat a lot of banku which looks like grits made into a ball and it has a sour taste and is eaten with soup, with your fingers! I am always a mess after eating! There is this one soup with little green hot peppers in it, we eat it with banku, which helps with the heat but it sure clears out your sinuses!! Samuel told me the other day when we were eating it that he breaks up the little peppers so it is throughout the soup! Then there is one soup that is a mustard color and has chicken, it’s called groundnut soup….ohhhh its nice….. Another favorite is a soup with okra in it!
Let’s see then lunch today we had waakye, which is beans, rice, stew, and a boiled egg, its GOOD!!!! I want to bring Auntie Dawn and Auntie Lucy home with me! I told them I want their recipes, but they keep them in their head. I have only come across one thing I could not bring myself to eat at the time, which was a fish head, but one of my good friends was willing to eat it for me, and I was SO grateful! One day I came in for lunch, one of the children asked me if I ever had crab. I have eaten and like crab, and told the child that. When I received my bowl and went to sit down I saw it was a whole crab (not sure what I expected). I remember praying silently, Okay God how am I going to eat this? I sat down at the table with my good friend Emmanuel and the children and he said that, yes they eat the whole crab. The crab was not the only thing in my bowl so I started with the okra soup and banku and waited to eat my crab when Emmanuel eat his. I’m not sure how I would have gotten through it without him! Yes, silly but true! Then the other night I was eating with Samuel and Emmanuel. I was working on eating my rice and pushing the fish around on my plate just wondering if I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Finally, I looked up and said to Samuel and Emmanuel, “I just have one question…Is this a fish head on my plate?” Thankfully Emmanuel came to my rescue and eat it for me that time, I just could not bring myself to eat somethings face, that time. This evening I did end up eating two fish heads! They fry them so their like fish chips.
We went to market the other day and afterward we went for
pizza and ice cream!
Market was like one of our farmers markets but very packed, you can barely walk single filed line. Then with so many people trying to sell you things you can’t make eye contact with anyone, unless you are interested in making a purchase. There was five of us ladies and four of us were white. I walked at the back of the line and kept my eyes on the back of Jenny’s head, but my peripheral vision was what I was really seeing.
There was
so much to look at yet it was hard to take it all in when you need to keep
together. Once we were walking along the street where there were sellers and at
one point there were guys jumping in front of me with pants to sell and I just
had to pass them as if I did not see them even when one grabbed at my arm I
just kept walking. If you did not pay them any mind they would not follow. I
was reminded of how that is how we need to be spiritually we need to keep our
eyes on the Kingdom, and not become distracted by the world around us. I want
my face to be so set on Jesus!
I was told later that some people actually live there at the market. As we walked we passed a lot of people sleeping in random places. There were so many smells I could not decide if they were smells to be enjoyed or not, or a mixture of both. The funnies thing I saw for sale at market would be live snails the size of a man’s fist, for eating! I was told that snail, cat, and dog are nice (very good)!
Yesterday, Thursday, I had to do laundry. Here we do our laundry by hand and it is a long process. It takes me about three hours to do my laundry for a week. Emmanuel and Samuel were joking that they would give me their laundry to do too! Which would be silly since they ARE MUCH better at doing laundry than me!!!! Since I just started four weeks ago! They just think it would be funny watching me do the laundry by hand.
I have been so blessed, since I coming to Ghana I have had so many tasty foods! They do like hot(spicy) foods, and only once was it really too HOT for me, yet I was able to finish it! We eat a lot of banku which looks like grits made into a ball and it has a sour taste and is eaten with soup, with your fingers! I am always a mess after eating! There is this one soup with little green hot peppers in it, we eat it with banku, which helps with the heat but it sure clears out your sinuses!! Samuel told me the other day when we were eating it that he breaks up the little peppers so it is throughout the soup! Then there is one soup that is a mustard color and has chicken, it’s called groundnut soup….ohhhh its nice….. Another favorite is a soup with okra in it!
Let’s see then lunch today we had waakye, which is beans, rice, stew, and a boiled egg, its GOOD!!!! I want to bring Auntie Dawn and Auntie Lucy home with me! I told them I want their recipes, but they keep them in their head. I have only come across one thing I could not bring myself to eat at the time, which was a fish head, but one of my good friends was willing to eat it for me, and I was SO grateful! One day I came in for lunch, one of the children asked me if I ever had crab. I have eaten and like crab, and told the child that. When I received my bowl and went to sit down I saw it was a whole crab (not sure what I expected). I remember praying silently, Okay God how am I going to eat this? I sat down at the table with my good friend Emmanuel and the children and he said that, yes they eat the whole crab. The crab was not the only thing in my bowl so I started with the okra soup and banku and waited to eat my crab when Emmanuel eat his. I’m not sure how I would have gotten through it without him! Yes, silly but true! Then the other night I was eating with Samuel and Emmanuel. I was working on eating my rice and pushing the fish around on my plate just wondering if I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Finally, I looked up and said to Samuel and Emmanuel, “I just have one question…Is this a fish head on my plate?” Thankfully Emmanuel came to my rescue and eat it for me that time, I just could not bring myself to eat somethings face, that time. This evening I did end up eating two fish heads! They fry them so their like fish chips.
We went to market the other day and afterward we went for
pizza and ice cream! Market was like one of our farmers markets but very packed, you can barely walk single filed line. Then with so many people trying to sell you things you can’t make eye contact with anyone, unless you are interested in making a purchase. There was five of us ladies and four of us were white. I walked at the back of the line and kept my eyes on the back of Jenny’s head, but my peripheral vision was what I was really seeing.
There was
so much to look at yet it was hard to take it all in when you need to keep
together. Once we were walking along the street where there were sellers and at
one point there were guys jumping in front of me with pants to sell and I just
had to pass them as if I did not see them even when one grabbed at my arm I
just kept walking. If you did not pay them any mind they would not follow. I
was reminded of how that is how we need to be spiritually we need to keep our
eyes on the Kingdom, and not become distracted by the world around us. I want
my face to be so set on Jesus!I was told later that some people actually live there at the market. As we walked we passed a lot of people sleeping in random places. There were so many smells I could not decide if they were smells to be enjoyed or not, or a mixture of both. The funnies thing I saw for sale at market would be live snails the size of a man’s fist, for eating! I was told that snail, cat, and dog are nice (very good)!
Yesterday, Thursday, I had to do laundry. Here we do our laundry by hand and it is a long process. It takes me about three hours to do my laundry for a week. Emmanuel and Samuel were joking that they would give me their laundry to do too! Which would be silly since they ARE MUCH better at doing laundry than me!!!! Since I just started four weeks ago! They just think it would be funny watching me do the laundry by hand.
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