Monday, October 19, 2009

It's been a while...sorry

Ok sorry for taking forever to blog next.

This one is going to be short because I only have 15 minutes left on my internet here at the internet cafe (welcome to Ghana).

Here is a fun highlight for ya:

So on October 16th, the Ghana Black Stars under 20 (years old) soccer team became the first African team to win the World Cup in the division. Now, Ghana people love soccer, or football as they call it. But they don't love it like we do in America.

They live it.
They breathe it.
They eat it for dinner.

Ok, so myself and some friends were at a bar, watching the game. They entire 90 minutes went without a score, as did the 30 minute over time. So it came down the the shootout.

Ghana = goal
Brazil= goal
Ghana=goal

...and so on and so on. It came down to Ghana making one final goal it win

and they did.

AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ERUPTED.

People were dancing, screaming, chanting, yelling, smiling, pounding on tables. The streets flooded with people - literally the whole city of Tamale decended on the main road. My friends and I left the bar to take to the streets and check it out. As we turned to our lefts, we probably looked like Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds because coming toward us was a sea of zealous Ghanians all lead by two men carrying a giant Ghanian flag.

So of course we joined the celebration! and oh boy did we celebrate :) I wove my Ghanian flag proudly as we danced and chanted and screamed like mad people!

3 miles
1 hour
and buckets of sweat later, we returned to our hotel exhausted.

Drifting off to sleep, I couldn't help but smile :)


Next Post: details on the Naama village trip and what else I did in Tamale

Also, for those of you keeping track, we are headed to Cape Coast on Thursday :)

No comments:

Post a Comment