LONG WEEKEND

Hello everybody long time no post.

So lets see what have I been up to...

Wednesday night:

A couple of us went to an outdoor sports bar to watch the Chelsea vs. Barcelona match that they were projecting onto a large screen. I got there a little late (after the first goal unfortunately), and there were at least a hundred people. Naturally, being me, while weaving my way through the crowd to meet up with my friends I accidentally walked into the projector turning it so that it no longer was pointing at the screen. Everyone was yelling at me. Fortunately one of my friends started yelling "SHES AN ABRUNI. ITS OK, SHE IS AN ABRUNI" (as in: 'what did u expect from an abruni?') everyone started laughing and the situation defused quickly. It was an incredible experience. It was my first experience being in a place where EVERYBODY was talking about soccer and watching a specific game. We then went to a Reggae night at the beach (in celebration of our midterm being over) which was a lot of fun.

Friday:

We left early Friday morning to go to Elmina. Elmina is on the coast of Ghana and is where the first European building was built in Western Africa. Elmina Castle is the oldest and largest slave castle is Western Africa (maybe Sub Saharan Africa in general). It was built by the Portuguese and was later taken over by the Dutch. I have a lot of pictures of the castle but forgot my camera in my room so I will post them tomorrow. It was an extremely powerful and nauseating place to be. A Portuguese church has a central location in the castle, meaning that the slaves would see it as they were forced into cramped, poorly ventilated and lit prisons where they had to relieve themselves on the floor, got little food, and were never able to bathe (unless one of the officers decided they wanted to rape you, then the woman was made to bathe before hand). The church would also be one of the last sights for slaves who had been misbehaving and were being placed in the cell of death (a cell which had no light or ventilation where they were left without food or water until they died).

Ok, class is about to start I will try to write more about the weekend later today