Today we worked on patterns at the house. There were a lot of patterns at the house that were ready to go out with flats and instructions. I ended up heading to the office around 10am to take the new patterns and try and get them out so they can be sampled and come back on Monday.
When I got to the office I patterned some squares for them to use as a template to cut fabric to sell them as quilting squares. When the squares were cut and came back from the women they weren’t very straight, so I tried making the templates out of cardboard. Hopefully that will help them to draw straight lines.
After leaving the office the few of us who went to the office went to Melcom and bough some groceries. We also went to a new market in Elmina that is smaller and closer to the office. It was nice because it wasn’t so crowded and didn’t smell so fishy. We all pitched in and got some groceries to make a fiesta.
When we went to make tortillas we realized that we bought cornstarch instead of corn flour. You clearly can have a fiesta with out tortillas, so Ellen and I walked across the street to see if they had any flour at Sea Top. Kristina, who owns the bar and who we know fairly well because we hang out there often, told us that she didn’t have any flour but she had some at her house, so she sent someone to go get some for us. She bagged it up and gave it to us. When we asked her how much to pay she said we didn’t need to pay that she was dashing it to us. It was the first time I had been dashed anything. It’s cool cause it means that we’re friends. Its like we bring her business by hanging out there and so she wanted to do something nice for us.
It had been raining a lot all day and it was pretty muddy out. Nick suggested that we all go for a walk. The walk turned into a giant mud fight. Everyone was splashing in puddles and throwing mud everywhere and all the Ghanaians who were around looked at us like we were crazy. Later we realized there was probably a lot of poop in the mud we were throwing as people pretty much just go to the bathroom where ever, but it was really fun and totally worth it. J
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