Today the weather was beautiful. Sara, Maria, Pepo (Maria’s huge dog that all the Ghanaians are afraid of), and I went to the Brenu beach. Maria has a “special” taxi driver who will take us to the beach and pick us up when we’re ready to come home. Brenu beach is about a 15 min. taxi drive from the house, and it cost 6 Ghana Cedis to get there, but it was worth every peswas. J
When we got to the beach there was a restaurant and private tiki huts with tables under them. Walking past the restaurant there were palm trees everywhere. It was beautiful. I honestly feel like we had been warped into another dimension because everything was so nice and it was so different then Cape Coast. They even put hammocks up for us. We spent the day lying in the sun, getting knocked around by the waves, and reading in hammocks. It was a great start to the weekend.
After a day in the sun we came home showered and got ready for dinner. We went to Elis for dinner, which we’ve done every night since we’ve been in Elmina. For dinner, Eli made macaroni and cheese, and even though it may seem impossible, it was better then velveta. This was by far the best macaroni and cheese I have ever had and come to find out it was made from laughing cow cheese and some spices. Eli is an amazing cook and it is really too bad that we are her only customers. Cheese is very hard to come by in Ghana. It just amazes me how good it was when she had such little resources to work with.
During dinner the power went out. Its funny because I’m still not used to such sudden power shortages and I'm still caught of guard where the people who live here keep going on with things like nothing has changed. Eli lit candles and we finished our dinner by candlelight.
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