Closer to home, but still a lot of adventure
Two weekends and one full week of not updating the blog. You all must have missed me, haven't you?
The 27-28 of January weekend's highlight was attending a Sunday Service. It really was an interesting experience and I liked it cause it had 3 of my favorite things - passion, unity and dancing. I felt the power of community and the joy, something that I've never felt in a chrystian-ortodox church where I've only gone few times dragged by my grandmother. If I had a been religious person and all alone in this country, churches would make the perfect place to feel welcomed and part of the community - very nice people everywhere.
We’ve also been to a new beach that weekend – Bojo beach. It’s cool we had to cross a river to get there. Guided by some Romanian friends we’ve met here in Accra, we found this beach to be clean, quiet and relatively cheap.
Sunday evening the new wave of trainees started arriving – David and Linn from Norway and Lenka from Czech Republic - a fresh breeze that feels good and fun. Too bad I’m leaving soon. But well, there is enough fun waiting for me back in Bucharest. :-)
The 27-28 of January weekend's highlight was attending a Sunday Service. It really was an interesting experience and I liked it cause it had 3 of my favorite things - passion, unity and dancing. I felt the power of community and the joy, something that I've never felt in a chrystian-ortodox church where I've only gone few times dragged by my grandmother. If I had a been religious person and all alone in this country, churches would make the perfect place to feel welcomed and part of the community - very nice people everywhere.
We’ve also been to a new beach that weekend – Bojo beach. It’s cool we had to cross a river to get there. Guided by some Romanian friends we’ve met here in Accra, we found this beach to be clean, quiet and relatively cheap.
The whole week after that I was in Tarkua – at a gold mine - one of the biggest in the world - where my company was delivering a training session. It was nice to break the routine and to also have hot water, electricity, cable TV and 3 meals a day.
I hanged out (mostly at the pool and bar) with my South African friends from Christmas (Green Turtle) and also some other nice South African people. Thanks Johan for allowing me to go on a tour of the mine and see the whole process of extracting the gold – Gosh, it’s long and complicated, but apparently it’s worth it. Was sad I didn’t see any gold – must be frustrating not to see the outcome of your work. At least for me.
Anywayz, top security everywhere. After I left the last process before the gold room (we were not allowed to see this one), they’ve made me take my shoes and socks off to check if I didn’t take anything (What could have I had taken, I wonder? Chemicals, rocks with gold in them?!?). It is good though that was all I had to take off. :-P
From Tarkua I’ve headed to Cape Coast on Saturday morning to join my first Ghanaian AIESEC conference – LINK 2007. That was fun, felt like a normal AIESEC conference less the crazy games and parties (apparently the night before I arrived the party ruled).
Managed to see The Cape Coast castle and have another slice of colonization history - scary and sick. For example, the women found pregnant just before being sold, were thrown overboard. Sometimes if they had discovered them earlier, they were sent in the village to have the baby and then sold as slaves losing any contact with the child. There are lots of stories, but they will never make it as “bed time stories”.
I hanged out (mostly at the pool and bar) with my South African friends from Christmas (Green Turtle) and also some other nice South African people. Thanks Johan for allowing me to go on a tour of the mine and see the whole process of extracting the gold – Gosh, it’s long and complicated, but apparently it’s worth it. Was sad I didn’t see any gold – must be frustrating not to see the outcome of your work. At least for me.
Anywayz, top security everywhere. After I left the last process before the gold room (we were not allowed to see this one), they’ve made me take my shoes and socks off to check if I didn’t take anything (What could have I had taken, I wonder? Chemicals, rocks with gold in them?!?). It is good though that was all I had to take off. :-P
From Tarkua I’ve headed to Cape Coast on Saturday morning to join my first Ghanaian AIESEC conference – LINK 2007. That was fun, felt like a normal AIESEC conference less the crazy games and parties (apparently the night before I arrived the party ruled).
Managed to see The Cape Coast castle and have another slice of colonization history - scary and sick. For example, the women found pregnant just before being sold, were thrown overboard. Sometimes if they had discovered them earlier, they were sent in the village to have the baby and then sold as slaves losing any contact with the child. There are lots of stories, but they will never make it as “bed time stories”.
Sunday evening the new wave of trainees started arriving – David and Linn from Norway and Lenka from Czech Republic - a fresh breeze that feels good and fun. Too bad I’m leaving soon. But well, there is enough fun waiting for me back in Bucharest. :-)
posted by This is Dandu at 1:56 AM
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