"i'll tell you what to do.. IGNORE IT!"

Today was good... First off, Mom helped me figure out my non-paid tuition situation AND my jury duty has been postponed, excellent news - I won't have to fly to Phoenix on January 28th! And... I'm starting to really enjoy the people here. Milk was fantastic... I criiiied. Today we learned lots of cultural dos and don'ts - like the thumbs up that looks like you are texting/playing a video game is BAD! OFFENSIVE haha. Don't do it. Also, never refuse food from someone who offers it to you.. they take offense to that too. We also were told not to take offense if Ghanaians call us "Obruni", meaning white person or foreigner. Its a term of endearment and they are usually genuinely excited to see us..apparently! After this session, we then visited Ashesi University where I think I'll take African dance and music! Then we visited the University of Ghana where i may take one class. The campus is HUGE! And registration is sooo confusing. Also, the bathrooms have no toilet paper so i had to use my little legal EnviroNotes notepad paper to wipe. GROSSAAA. So now if i take a class there, I'll know to bring my own tp. I really want to take environmental psychology here... I would be in class with like a bunch of GHANAIANS! woo hoo! I'm so excited to get to know locals.. they are all very friendly (besides the one who told me it was "nice to be nice"). Most ghanaian students dress up and look very nice for class. We all are wearing tank tops and shorts, and sweating our little booties off. It's so gross, I don't know how they do it and manage to look nice! The internet guy came to talk to us about...the internet, and man, was he attractive. He was Ghanaian AND he had a British accent. Tonight: more delicious Ghanaian food for dinner and then just hung out with a bunch of girls in my residence hall. At dinner I sat next to this hilarious Israeli woman who was astonished that I knew that Isreal was in Asia. I don't know who she was, what her name is, or why she was sitting with us, but I loved her. And she was just funny. A you-had-to-be-there type lady. Oh funny thing.. I'll try to get a picture soon, was we saw a sign for "Urinals" and then upon closer inspection... they have CARTOONS of people PEEEEEING! Like men standing up and peeing. On the walls of the urinal. Bizarre. I just laughed. And tried to take a picture but it didn't turn out since we were in a moving vehicle. Well no malaria yet.. and no unusual diarrhea (I'm actually way good on this medicine yay), so I'd say I'm doing well!

twi lesson: me d⊃ (that's the closest i can get to a backward c) wo = Romantic I love you - not really used between family members. Auntie Akosua, our teacher, said that they don't really say "i love you" between family members - that she doesn't ever remember her mother saying it to her, but that its completely understood. Interesting fact about the Ghanaian culture to go with the Twi lesson!

peace love love
goodnight!