just dance

Today was more (in the term of Marlee, my friend here.. I hope you see this) BORE-ienation. We talked about community service, which I'm so excited for and we also got to talk with most of our professors. I am not taking African dance and music anymore because its during my photography class, but I am taking photography, studio arts, a reporting Africa class (where we will hopefully take a trip to Burkina Fasso for a film festival up there!), and then another class that I have yet to register for. Dun dun dun... Worst part of the day (probably will be the worst part of the entire trip.. so long as I stay out of the hospital) - discussing the required reading. I can't even explain to you how looooooong we talked about this short short play! This lady could've gone on for days about this play. After this long boring discussion, of which we were let out at 4:30 and were supposed to be out by 4... we had to be out ready and dressed to go to the U.S. Ghanaian embassy at 5:00. Everyone took two minutes showers because we were all so sweaty and gross from the day and got dressed up and ready to go to the Embassy. The embassy was nice and everyone there was nice. They told us MORE security and safety tips - I guess you can't be too well-prepared. Next.... Ghanaian dance bar!

Tonight was SOOOO incredibly fun! We just got back from a live music bar with lots of dancing! The musician would have breaks in between songs and look at everyone and say, "Go get a drink, it's too hot!" He's just making sure no one gets dehydrated haha. It was all reggae music - they played Hey Jude in reggae and it was so great. It was SOOOOOOO fun... I've never sweat so much in my life - so humid and hot and humid and hot and a million bodies up next to you dancing. It was great - a Ghanaian man told me, "white girl, you're a good dancer" (imagine an African accent) (and ME a good dancer, woo hoo!!). Another guy at the end of the night came up to me and was like "Don't break the chain" out of nowhere and so i asked him... "Chain?" and he was like "Of friendship - you guys all have such a close bond with one another and I hope you're all friends for a very long time" which was so nice but its funny because like we've only known each other for 4 days.

I'm having a wonderful time! I can't wait for more time out in the city - less time in the NYU Academic center for orientation.

Twi lesson:
Ete sen? - how are you? (Et-eh sen)
Eye! - Fine! (eh-yay)

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