rolling in the shallows

Here are some things I want to share about Ghana:

• One night we met some Hollanders and shared stereotypes that we know about each others cultures. Turns out we know very few stereotypes about those kids from the Netherlands.
• There are no motos in the entire country of Ghana. I checked and it's super weird.
• Kids in that country are rowdy little monsters. One came straight up to me and hugged me, others kept grabbing my hand with their left/poop hands and other kept touching my bag. None of these things I liked.
• It's watermelon season right now, that was also very weird.
• It's not fun to be in a country where English is the national language and English is my first language, but it is nearly impossible to be understood by anyone.
• One night we met some South African MEN. That men is all caps because they were the best most stereotypical MEN ever, they all had shaved heads and tattoos and the remains of what was once muscle from their younger years and they drank and smoke and told inappropriate jokes and then laughed really loudly afterwards. It was awesome. They are in Ghana as engineers and making a ton of money at a gold mine and they are led by a 52 year old man with a huge white beard who laughs really loudly and rolls his R's in the best possible manner. I talked with him for several hours. He told me I looked like Lady Di (...yeah, I don't know how he got that either) and that I was cheeky (I think because I referred to children only as "those little basterds") and that sharks are racist (search your feelings, you know it to be true). 
• Transport in Ghana sucks just as much/possibly more than in Burkina. Never take the company STC. STC actually stands for Sucky Terrible Company (that's the nicest worst thing I could say about it)
• I ate so much bread in Ghana. I'd forgotten how glorious bread is.
• People in Ghana wear western clothes and it's super weird. In Burkina it's only the rich kids who wear pants or shirts you'd buy in a store but in Ghana everyone wears already sewn clothing and shorts! Shorts all the time. What a weird country that is.
• I met two Rastas who wanted to marry me. To one I gave a fake phone number because he kept coming up to me and giving me sneak attack hugs that I couldn't defend against and when I left he told me to come back because he would "treat me right," and he just wanted me to "love the life you live and live the life you love." The second one I met ran after me down the street because for some reason he doesn't understand what it looks like when people are ignoring you. He told me he was an acrobat and I said, ' I don't believe you, do something right now.' And then he did a really impressive backhandstand/pushup/flip back. I was so impressed that I even took the time to write down a fake email address to give him. I know right?! I'm super nice.
• The difference between Ghana and Burkina is like night and day, it's incredible how large the difference is in development between those countries. The people we met in Ghana were incredulous that we had lived a year in Burkina and could only ask 'why?' why would you ever go there and what is there to do. The answers are 'I don't know' and 'nothing'