Wednesday, August 7
In our drum class today we were taught some of the singing parts for the piece we were to perform later on. After that, we loaded up the trotro for a trip to Ho, about an hour away. This is our opportunity to get to a telephone and e-mail and do some shopping.
The local chief had passed away a week earlier and the wake was still going on. Most people wear red to honor him. A few people had flint lock rifles (loaded only with gun powder) they were firing off during the procession. One guy was doing an act where he was pretending to cut himself with his machete. And of course it came with drums. It was all pretty intense.
A few people had flint lock rifles (loaded only with gun powder) they were firing off during the procession. One guy was doing an act where he was pretending to cut himself with his machete. And of course it came with drums. It was all pretty intense.
The Internet connection was quite slow, but workable. Francis, the owner was quite surprised when I asked if he had a Linux box - and he did, so I used that to log into my computers in Seattle so I could get my e-mail. They only charge 200 Cedis per minute (2.5 cents).
All over Ghana, if you want to make a call, you typically go to a place like this.
Ghana sure has swanky looking telephone booths. In all our travels, we'd never seen anything like this. It seems the country is moving ahead.
