Akwaaba Weekend

For your info, Akwaaba means Welcome in Twi. I didn't do a whole lot this weekend, but Saturday evening was the Akwaaba Party for International Students.

So pretty much, Saturday I sat around in my room, did some more laundry, uploaded pictures to facebook, fixed some of the layouts on the blog. I didn't have much going on. I was so busy being lazy in my room that I forgot to go out for lunch and ended up buying a can of baked beans, some Pringles, and cheese to eat for lunch. It felt like freshmen year all over again. lol. Then after doing a whole lot of nothing, one of my friends (Evelyn) texted to me to ask to borrow my guidebook on Ghana. I brought it up to her and when ended up discussing a trip to the Volta Region in Ghana to go to Wli Falls and the two highest peaks in Ghana. The plan is to go this coming weekend, so I am pretty stoked. I must admit I'm also a little nervous because this will be our first excursion from Accra on our own, but I know we'll be fine.

After chatting with Evelyn for a while about traveling in Ghana and around while we are here, I went to the market to pick up some essentials, including some bread and eggs and a tomato to make myself some dinner. I borrowed a pan from another friend and got to work. It was pretty interesting, seeing as I didn't have any butter or oil, but it worked out well. It was a pretty good egg sandwich actually. And I eat the whole tomato. It was so fresh and tasty I couldn't help myself. While I was cooking one of my Ghanaian friends found me in the kitchen listening to Jazz music and cooking and decided to come and help, meaning talk to me and sing along with my music (randomly deciding at time to pull me into a dance) lol. It was fun, and I ended up hanging out with Fifi (the friend I was talking about) and Ike (another friend I met through Fifi) for a few hours. After eating, I realized it was getting late so I went to my room and got ready for the Akwaaba Party.

I know a lot of people complained about the party cause they said it was slow or whatever, but to be honest I had a really great time. I danced pretty much the entire time I was there. So from like 10:30pm to 3am. I was NUTS!!!! So much fun though. Ghanaian music is made for dancing too so it was a great time. There were a few scary moments though when guys I didn't know tried to pull me over to dance with them, but luckily I had Fifi and Ike to save me whenever that happened. The only time I was really scared though was with this one bouncer for the club who kept being super creepy and asking for my number and where I lived. At one point I was outside the club and he stopped me to talk then when he couldn't really hear me because of the music he asked to move away from the door. I was fine with that, but then he led me all the way to the side of the building almost out of the sight of the people out front. I was SUPER creeped out and got out of there as soon as I could. Then later he came into the club and tried to grab me from Fifi and Ike to dance, but they got him to leave me alone. Then right before we left, Fifi and I were sitting on a couch practically falling asleep and then Fifi went out to see if we could leave yet, and this guy can back as soon as Fifi left and grabbed my arm and tried to make me come with him, but I wasn't that dumb so I ended up escaping on to the dance floor with a friend from the hostel, named Sam, who was from Costa Rica. He is a nice guy, and he had no problem trying to keep me away from this guy, but I think he expected a little more than friendship cause he got really defensive and didn't want to let me leave with Fifi and Ike later on. But anyways, overall it was a good night. I enjoyed myself. Danced the night away. Ended up not waking up until like 1pm today then got an egg sandwich did another load of laundry and since then I've just been listening to jazz music and hanging out. I have absolutely no plans for tonight, but I am thinking about starting a book. I have WAY to much extra time on my hands right now.

My Saturday Afternoon

P.S.- I posted a link on the sidebar to Cynthia's Blog. She is in our group of international students and she has some amazing pictures, plus I am featured in her blog (as the pocketpurse picker). Check it out. :D

Whole Room View from main door

Whole room view from the balcony

Ike and I outside the club

Chillin' like a Villian