This is polar opposite of a sob story
This place is so awesome and its something that i can't ever explain to anyone i'll ever meet who wasn't here to see it.
So many people know Africa as their "Pity Continent".
I don't pity these people at all for the economic, environmental and cultural issues i find so different and suffering. If anything i pity my own city where everything is stupidly easy and everyone's a slow coach.
I have a really hard time hearing comments from friends and family back home of the following:
"Your so strong, i could never do what your doing."
"How's Africa?"
"Hang in there"
What does me being here have anything different to do with living at home, the people here do it and make it look almost fun.
I need people to know the following:
1. I'm not just in Africa, i'm in Ghana.
2. I have not lost my sense humor, if anything it has only become stronger and more immature.
3. I'm not the humanitarian that's changing the world, i have done absolutly nothing to change anything here, they are changing me.
4. Yes, Africa is hot.
I want people at home to know that this place isn't sad for me, i am learning how to laugh harder and dance better and sing in front of crowds without being embarrassed. I'm learning how to buy good fish, sweep in a patterned fashion, carry water on my head for a far walk, spell jesus with my butt, wash my clothes, make coco, love banku, whistle a real song, sing ghanaian music, catch pigs, find news ways of laughing at pheebs.
So on that note, i'm not pitying anyone here. They use what they have extremely well and i want to be them more and more everyday. Laugh with me while i'm here, im not suffering in the least bit, i'm smiling more than you imagine i am and i'd like to do it with you
Just think of it as a 6 month camping trip with 5 women about to travel Ghana with no parental supervision. Fill in the blanks Pamela! danger.
Travel time is like when your a small girl in the grocery store, and you walk by the mince meat isle and poke smiley faces into the packaging just to be a brat.
So many people know Africa as their "Pity Continent".
I don't pity these people at all for the economic, environmental and cultural issues i find so different and suffering. If anything i pity my own city where everything is stupidly easy and everyone's a slow coach.
I have a really hard time hearing comments from friends and family back home of the following:
"Your so strong, i could never do what your doing."
"How's Africa?"
"Hang in there"
What does me being here have anything different to do with living at home, the people here do it and make it look almost fun.
I need people to know the following:
1. I'm not just in Africa, i'm in Ghana.
2. I have not lost my sense humor, if anything it has only become stronger and more immature.
3. I'm not the humanitarian that's changing the world, i have done absolutly nothing to change anything here, they are changing me.
4. Yes, Africa is hot.
I want people at home to know that this place isn't sad for me, i am learning how to laugh harder and dance better and sing in front of crowds without being embarrassed. I'm learning how to buy good fish, sweep in a patterned fashion, carry water on my head for a far walk, spell jesus with my butt, wash my clothes, make coco, love banku, whistle a real song, sing ghanaian music, catch pigs, find news ways of laughing at pheebs.
So on that note, i'm not pitying anyone here. They use what they have extremely well and i want to be them more and more everyday. Laugh with me while i'm here, im not suffering in the least bit, i'm smiling more than you imagine i am and i'd like to do it with you
Just think of it as a 6 month camping trip with 5 women about to travel Ghana with no parental supervision. Fill in the blanks Pamela! danger.
Travel time is like when your a small girl in the grocery store, and you walk by the mince meat isle and poke smiley faces into the packaging just to be a brat.
posted by One World Ghana Group 2008 | 3:00 AM
1 Comments:
I'm curious about the "spell jesus with my butt" comment...
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