Thursday May 23rd, 2013
We were up so early this morning. 5:45 and I was up and cheery. I don’t know how I had so much energy but we
all loaded on the bus and I was just jamming to my tunes and enjoying the
drive. I eventually fell asleep but not
for very long. We drove to the Cape Coast and it was beautiful. We started out at the Kukum Rain Forest and
we were able to climb along the rope bridges and that was so freaking
cool. We were so high in the air and Sam
was freaking out the whole time. I would
walk and the rope bridge would move and she would just yell at me for making it
move. It was so fun. I really loved walking along them. It was like being a monkey up in the
trees. I was freaked out because they
said there are green mambas in the forest and that a lot of snakes live in the
trees so I was pretty cautious about that.
We drove to the castle restaurant and on the way Richard got in a
yelling match with some guy in the road and he says ‘you eff off!’ I shouldn’t laugh but it was so funny to
me. They don’t even know how strong that
word is in English yet every language I have come across knows that
phrase. It is so universal. The restaurant was right on the beach; it was
so humid and sticky but I loved it. They
waves were huge and would crash along the rocky coast. There were little crabs everywhere. I loved that you didn’t see any boats out in
the water. Just little wood ones used
for fishing. Besides the litter and raw
sewage pipes going into the water and it was beautiful. We were up on the rocks as the waves would
spray up; way tight! We got pizza and it was so pinappely and Kaylas pizza had
no tomato sauce and she was so mad. Man
it was funny. We visited the Cape Coast
Slave Castle. That place was so
interesting. Millions of slaves were
imported to America and I had no idea it was that many. We started in the museum will all the
artifacts, plaques, and pictures. They
were shackeld together and lined the hulls of ships for months until they
arrived in America. It is incredible to
think of all the bodies in the ocean that were once slaves. I mean they just took them from their homes
and sold them. That would be like me
being at home and just getting taken to be sold to some person. I don’t understand that. I would like to think that if I were a white
back in that time that I wouldn’t have slaves; but I think I probably would
have. I think I would have been a nice
owner; but nonetheless it would’ve still been wrong. It is horrible what another human being can
to do another. The castle still had the
cells and cannons. It was very cool to
be there and see and experience all of it.
The drive back was long but again I couldn’t really sleep so I just
enjoyed it. We went to pick up our wears
at the market and the skirts turned out nice.
They are freaking tiny but really good.
We tried to leave the market, but the gates were all locked. So we were basically being locked in. And Richard was running as fast as he could
because the bus could only be parked in its place for so long so we were all
trying to keep up. Then Amber rolled her
ankle which look like it killed her. But
we made it, out of breath, but safe. We
got home and Richard took Kevin and I to the tailor and I got my pants. They turned out pretty sick. Not exactly what I wanted but really
cool. I am excited for them. On the walk we totally saw rats hanging out
in the sewer. For same reason that just
grossed me out. I hate rats and
everything they represent. I have
wondered where all the rats are. I
figured since the country is so dirty that they should have them everywhere. We had a good pasta salad/tuna melt dinner
combo. I enjoyed it. The Internet didn’t work all day today so I
couldn’t do much homework; but hey I tried.
I will just have to buckle down tomorrow and get it all done. I can’t believe we are winding down. We really only have tomorrow planned and we
basically get ready to go home. I am
partly ready, but mostly not. I am ready
to get away from all the girls and all their complaining. Emily and I were talking about how we could
live here. I mean, if I had a job and
everyday things to do, I don’t think it would be that bad. Seriously, Cape Coast was amazing and I could
settle there. It was fun watching all
the fisherman on the water mending their nets and casting them out and doing a
hard days work. It’s interesting that in
more western countries we are not fit but we exhaust ourselves everyday using our
minds. Here they are fit because they
exhaust themselves doing manual labor but not necessarily by using their
minds. I am not belittling them or
saying they are dumb; I just mean that we both do hard work but hard in
different ways. But it was very enjoyable
to watch them and their way of life. It
is so much laid back than our culture and time is more of a feeling, as is
distance and consistency. But I believe
it is something I could get used to. The
smells, however, assault my nostrils and that is hard to get used to. Proper sewage would go a long way in this
country; as would trash cans. But ya
know, America was once this way. Maybe
not on such a large scale but it had its problems. Hopefully Ghana will grow out of it.
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