Church, Chicken, and Dance Parties

In Ghana, every occasion is an excuse to dance. In church this morning, the preacher actually said, "if in your worship through music you do not have cheer in your heart and movement through your body, God will not accept it". When we were walking to He is Mighty Chop Bar this evening for dinner (Chicken and Jollof), on the way we passed by a huge celebration. We asked Victoria (the sweetest lady and the owner of He is Mighty) what the occasion was. She said it was the Ghanaian equivalent of a baby- shower, only post-birth as opposed to pre-birth like ours are. Except at this baby shower, there was no diaper counting or cooing over a Tiffany and Co. Rattle (SATC reference). No no, this baby shower was rowdier than most college parties I have been to. Let me tell you, Ghanaians know how to have a good time..

Some of the kids hanging around outside the party had waved and said "Hello Obruni" to us as we passed the first time so I decided to go back and see if I could film them for a bit with my flip cam (thank you SBHSE)...

Chicken and Jollof Rice, yum.


I definitely got some footage. But not really of the kids... As soon as I have fast internet I will post the video.

Basically I went to ask if I could film the kids and instead was thrust into the middle of their party. All of the footage was taken by some random Ghanaian man who grabbed the camera from me.

Needless to say, I love Ghana!!

On the way back from dinner we stopped for Fanice, which is basically frozen ice cream in a bag. Super delicious.