Joe speaking here:
It's been 16 days since we left, but it's felt like much longer. Hallie and I moved in with our host family this last weekend in Kukurantumi. Our host mother Mama Doris has fairly strong ties to the PC: she started and NGO that trains young adults to cook and those that attend her cooking school serve their food to PC trainees during the initial weeks of training and has hosted PC volunteers for the past three years. This past weekend we watched as her tenants and cook-steward pounded cassava and plaintain into a doughy mixture called fufu. Hallie, Ma Doris, and I then ate fufu in ground nut soup with lamb at her nicest table.
I had just written much more than this but the connection timed out when I was trying to post... I will be back soon with more.
Earlier that day, Hallie and I accompanied Kwame for Sunday mass at the Community Methodist church. Ma Doris being pretty involved in the church, Kwame thought it fair to mention that at some point during the service, the pastor is going to request our presence in front of the congregation for to introduce ourselves. When the time came, Hallie and I mustered up our best Twi to state our names, where we're from, and that we are Peace Corps teachers(Kwame filmed it with Hallies camera).
do you guys have any electronics? Is the house that your staying at nice? P.S i watched the ghana game on the soccer world cup!
ReplyDeleteLuv u guys!
How was the food, Joe? We miss you guys. Post more stuff!
ReplyDeleteRanda, we did bring electronics like a camera and laptop. We've taken some really good pictures and videos so far, and will upload them soon.
ReplyDeleteJess, I love the food here, a dish that stands out is Banku, fermented corn. I think the corn is dried, ground, reconstituted then fermented in the husk. It has a taste like sourdough bread. Past PCVs have published a cookbook of Ghanaian foods.