Tisu Tisu !

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During the course of the week, we realized that the information we could get for our project through research was not enough. We prepared interviews in order to find out about the problems and thoughts of the people in our neighborhood on environment and pollution. The interviews turned out to be very much fun，as everybody was amazingly friendly and open to talk to us. We were even invited to the house of one of our neighbors and we learned much more than just the information we were seeking for our project.
After our workweek had been finished, we went to the Bojo-Beach just outside of Accra. In the course of the week we had grown to be around 25 interns at the Local Commitee, Aiesec Central University College. Twenty of us  hired aTrotro and went on the beach half an hour away. The beach is an island separated from the mainland by a river. We spent a wonderful day in the sun, and it was the pure holiday – feeling.

On Sunday, we accompanied Sally, my roommate, to her church; the Qodesh Lighthouse Chapel. It is the headquarter of the lighthouse churches in the country and a very impressive, modern building. The main house is an immense white church with big circled windows, without glass, which let the wind go through to make it a little bit cooler inside. We sat on chairs while the service was held on a large heightened level. When we entered the service had already started but people were coming and leaving during the two hours as they wished. A choir was singing and the whole community was participating, standing or sitting, clapping, singing and smiling. Even though the preaching was partly very difficult to listen to for me, I enjoyed very much the atmosphere in the church, which was enthusiastic and happy.

In the afternoon, we visited the Art and Craft Market, which is in the neighborhood where also the ministries and the government are located. It was interesting to see the traditional Ghanaian crafts, and we even tried to bargain a bit by using our little knowledge of Twi, the traditional language in the Accra region. The most important words were surely tisu, meaning reduce the price and Daabi which means no. Also a friendly Me da si (thank you) made the sellers happy and maybe even a little bit more willing to bargain with the Obroni (white people).
To finish our free day, we started a little contra-programm and went to the Mall of Accra, had some Western food and watched Harry Potter.

~ by multicoloredsunglasses on July 22, 2011.