Day 27 (thursday)

My lunch from yesterday...yummy.

Me and the roommates...from left to right: Elom, Maureen, Kukuah!

 

Got up at 6, again, the usual. Sat around for awhile and decided to gather the roommates for a picture (one of them was not around and another one recently moved out) as one of them was leaving because her lease here was up and the other one was on her way to Accra. So there's a nice picture of me, Maureen, Elom, and 'Cookie' to remind me of the good times. I also got a call this morning from Eugene telling me that there is a football match tomorrow and because I had told him that I wanted to go, he remembered and was happy to tell me about it. Turns out it's a pretty big game and it's the Ghana national team against Lesotho in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match...I am very excited! Everyone was gone from the house and I was just hanging around but I imagine that I will go for a walk again and maybe head to campus. I went down to campus to the atm and walked around again for awhile then went to the soccer field and spent some time there but then it started to rain again so I began the nice little trek back home. I stopped to get a few items then came back home, completely soaked again, only this time I didn't have a towel because I had to use it to soak up a spill from the sink. After I dried off and was able to cool down a bit, I decided to go out again but this time it was for another box of water (aside from coffee and the one can of coke, it has been the only thing that I have been drinking). It's interesting that I love the fact that I'm drinking so much water but bummed about it at the same time...they don't recycle and I've had close to 100 bottles so far. I walked back with it on my shoulders like an '80's boom box, it's a nice little bit of exercise. In the meantime, Maureen was making jollof (earlier I spelled it jellof, as I was instructed) rice and oh man, it was so good. I wasn't really very hungry but I had two helpings of it with a little stew on top. I'm stuffed! Disregard the randomness, but I miss my pooch something fierce, I know it's only been a few weeks but it feels like forever (fortunately the internet [however terrible the service is here sometimes] makes the world a smaller place and has allowed me to see her and talk to her). I also sprayed my room with some mosquito repellant and I may have sprayed a bit too much, I think the fumes are making me a little loopy.