Leaving Ghana - this weekend

 I have moved up my return date as my son Kirk has been admitted to hospital yesterday with a bleed in his brain. I need to get back and see what's happening. I do plan to return to Ghana in November.

Have a good summer and we will talk later.

WATER FLOWS ... at the Cathedral KG School

 

 

Traditional Dress Friday

 TGIF Club in the diocesan Centre, lunch for me is peanuts, plantain chips and a coke, a totally crap lunch and it tastes great! 

I preached last Sunday. Precentor Canon Benjamin going to translate and he reads my sermon before hand, he finished reading it and said "oh you changed to gospel' I said 'no, I followed the lectionary"

anyway I had not, his response was very liberating "well I guess God wanted this message today" Wow  an answer. Never done that before.

 

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Dean Gabriel had car accident

 From what I have heard, Dean was out with his two kids and the brakes failed in the car. The town here is built around a hill so most roads are going up or down. I was told his brakes failed so he managed to drive the car into a concrete structure to stop. He had a couple of cuts but otherwise the kids and he are ok. He ramped on the drivers front fender and the car is totaled

 

TRaditional Dress Friday

I will admit, a long thin picture sure does make one look tall and slim

 It seems like the beginning of a joke: Rev, Hannah's funeral is two weeks today so thought I should reserve a hotel room, looked on line, fairly cheap by Canadian prices but it said :no sheets; and it also said Premium linens. a little confusing so I called. Price quoted on the phone was x4 on line and yes there are sheets.\Went back on line: yep $28.51 (USA funds) each night and I have until March 31 to cancel with no penalty, include twin bed, breakfast, tv, internet in the lobby (I have a portable modem), The four days there will give me a chance to say hello to friends. NOT A BAD DEAL eh!

Funeral notice: Rev. Hannah Dwomoh

 

School water installation update - thank you to all who supported this project

 Polytank beside tower where it swill be installed and connected to tape at school

 

Tap with drainage system on  outer school wall

JR at three months

 

GARI

 Gari

a granular flour from ground cassava. It looks like cream of wheat with a slight texture. It is made with milk or water with sugar and peanuts are added to give it texture. It thickens up when liquid is added. Not much taste except for sugar. I could have added more water to this. Fine china....Tupperware

PAINTING IN GHANA

 I thought that I would give some of the wood cupboards in the kitchen a fresh coat of paint. So bought paint and brushes. Opened paint and it was like pudding, thick as glue. tried to paint with it but it ended up being lumpy on the cupboard. I thought something wrong with the paint, nope, one dilutes it when you want to paint???????? weird or what. The painting mood passed for a few weeks. Today, holiday, a good time to reboot the painting mood. Got a second container to  pour some of the thick paint into and dilute with some water, how much, a guess. Well it was easier but did not seem to cover very well. It is flat paint so no sheen. Fan turning to speed up drying I hope. I did paint a few places, it does look better, I think I will bring a pot of varathane white paint back with me to redo the cupboards. Oh well I tried.   

I am continuing to follow the Ukraine invasion I wonder what will stop the Russians short of a massive war,, I pray not.as I play with paint, something wrong with this whole situation. 

                                                                                        

 

INDEPENDENCE DAY - GHANA

 tomorrow is the actual Independence Day which was celebrated today. It is a holiday like Canada Day. Today schools marched to a drummer, actually I have been hearing the bass drum being practiced in my neighbourhood for the past month. The marching schools was evaluated and the winners were given trophies. After church the dean, precentor and myself hopped in the car and went to the college playing field for all the festivities, police and army lined up, politicians, chiefs, local and federal leaders. It was like the CNE with food hackers, water for sale. lots and lots of kids and parents, I wondered in the car what the average family size was, and was told average 5 children/ family.  

here are the police lined up with a peak at the trophies at the bottom of the pic.

I have a video with one of the marching kids but can not up load it off the phone (still learning how to get this computer stuff to work)

The internet is a major problem these days, like every day and it becomes a real pain in the neck. I am having problems trying to solve it .....  ugh

yesterday ASH WEDNESDAY

 There were two services at the cathedral, 530 am and 9am, can you guess which one I attended, you are correct 9am. My rational is that God made the dark for use to sleep so getting up for a 530am service does not compute for me LOL I know .

We had over 200 kids from the near by Anglican schools and their teachers in the cathedral. The energy was electric. Ages were from KG to high school. All lines up for the imposition of ashes. While receiving the ashes it was interesting to watch their faces. Some were afraid, some were deep in thought. I would love to know what they were exactly thinking. 

LENT has started and the purple colour reminds us that we are reviewing our lives and preparing for the Holy Day of Easter.