daily routine
only in recent day or so ive seen a pattern start to emerge in my daily routine that could have some serious staying power. its very new but we'll see if it holds up. i get off work at four and take a taxi home with anne to our compound. at that point she goes to the seamstress in our driveway to have clothing made most days and i go home, get changed and sit on our sunny porch with a book and a beer. then people in the compound start coming home and everyone walks by our house and sometimes they sit and talk for awhile. at around 530 or so the people from Centre for democratic development get to the compound. only kristin lives with me but the rest of them come to hang out and augustin comes to play soccer.
we have a rocky driveway outside our compound where the tailor is which has a streetlight above it. we go out around six and kick around the ball with a three guys from the compound until the neighborhood kids catch on and start to show up for a game. word gets around quick that the obrunis with a ball want to play. there are five of us who play. augustin from argentina, chris and dirk from holland and timo, who's lived everywhere. it might sound weird at home but both the obrunis and the ghanaians have an understanding that the teams must be divided along racial lines. race is not a tense issue here. so its the obrunis (whiteys) against the obibinees (blackeys) and thats fine. it makes the game more fun and competitve. the five of us play against a different group of 15,16,17 yearold ghanaian kids each time. they're really good, better than us, but we have the size advantage more or less and that makes it pretty even. we've only played twice and theyve beaten us both times, but thats mostly becuase these kids are in better shape than any of us could ever hope to be and we wear down towards the end of the game and let in bad goals. yesterday we were leading at halftime 2-0 and lost 3-2 in the end. so anyway that is great fun and i think we're improving. when we play on wednesday we might have a good chance.
anyway after soccer at around 830 or so we go back inside the compound, shower quickly and go with the girls who have been patiently waiting, to eat at masters foods which is the chop bar (roadside restaurant) clsoest to our house. they have a menu with two items basically. you can get four different sized portions of fried chicken and rice. they;re called the kiddie pack, exu pack, bach & spin pack, and mega pack, ranging from one piece to four pieces of chicken and in price from 10000 to 25000 cedis. the other item is called beef sauce which is to good to explain. for 20000 (2$) you get a massive plate of fried rice and this beef sauce which is...well inexplicable like i said.
after that, depending on the night we may go out for a beer. and then people will go home. its a good routine and i hope it continues. i'll write about my weekend a bit later.
we have a rocky driveway outside our compound where the tailor is which has a streetlight above it. we go out around six and kick around the ball with a three guys from the compound until the neighborhood kids catch on and start to show up for a game. word gets around quick that the obrunis with a ball want to play. there are five of us who play. augustin from argentina, chris and dirk from holland and timo, who's lived everywhere. it might sound weird at home but both the obrunis and the ghanaians have an understanding that the teams must be divided along racial lines. race is not a tense issue here. so its the obrunis (whiteys) against the obibinees (blackeys) and thats fine. it makes the game more fun and competitve. the five of us play against a different group of 15,16,17 yearold ghanaian kids each time. they're really good, better than us, but we have the size advantage more or less and that makes it pretty even. we've only played twice and theyve beaten us both times, but thats mostly becuase these kids are in better shape than any of us could ever hope to be and we wear down towards the end of the game and let in bad goals. yesterday we were leading at halftime 2-0 and lost 3-2 in the end. so anyway that is great fun and i think we're improving. when we play on wednesday we might have a good chance.
anyway after soccer at around 830 or so we go back inside the compound, shower quickly and go with the girls who have been patiently waiting, to eat at masters foods which is the chop bar (roadside restaurant) clsoest to our house. they have a menu with two items basically. you can get four different sized portions of fried chicken and rice. they;re called the kiddie pack, exu pack, bach & spin pack, and mega pack, ranging from one piece to four pieces of chicken and in price from 10000 to 25000 cedis. the other item is called beef sauce which is to good to explain. for 20000 (2$) you get a massive plate of fried rice and this beef sauce which is...well inexplicable like i said.
after that, depending on the night we may go out for a beer. and then people will go home. its a good routine and i hope it continues. i'll write about my weekend a bit later.
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