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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Here* is ghana // Hier* ist ghana

in the centre of the world

on a roof-terrace in achimota, in the shade of corrugated iron: i am listening to the rustling of the surrounding palmtrees and feeling the warm breeze on my body. in germany a single day like this  - it would be an early summer’s day -  would fill me with endless happiness. right Here* and now, i have this very same feeling in my tummy (ever increasing by the jollof with spicy shito).

and even though Here*, unlike today, i don’t always deliberately praise the sunrays in my face, the constant warmth wrapping around my body and the un-necessity of a warm jacket…

…i carry this happiness within me every day, ready to smile it into someone’s face, to snap it throught my fingers with a handshake, ready to stir it into my stew or to transform it into a love-infused kiss.

every day counts!

or, how long till germany is part of supra-sahara and summer the only season?



auf einer dachterrasse in achimota, im schatten des wellblechdachs, lausche ich dem rauschen der palmen und fühle den warmen luftzug auf dem körper. in deutschland würde mich ein einziger solcher tag - dort waere es wohl ein langersehnter  frühsommertag - endlos glücklich machen. jetzt spüre ich auch Hier* dieses gefühl im bauch (was aber auch am jollof mit reichlich shito liegen könnte).

und obwohl ich mir Hier* nicht jeden tag wie heute bewusst mache, wie gut die sonnenstrahlen im gesicht, die konstante wärme um meinen körper und der überfluss einer warmen jacke mir tun...

...ich trage diese freude in mir, tag für tag, bereit sie jedem ins gesicht zu lächeln, mit einem handshake in die finger zu schnipsen, mit hingabe in mein stew zu rühren oder voll liebe in einen kuss zu verwandeln.

jeder tag zählt!

oder, wie lange noch, bis deutschland zur supra-sahara zählt, die den sommer zur einzigen jahreszeit macht?


P.S.: In case someone is wondering about my taste: shito is a sauce made of black pepper and shrimps. I know this is pretty lame, but here the wikipedia link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shito 
and a recipe:

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

My Life in Accra

My blog so far must sound as if we are constantly travelling restlessly through Ghana. That is not true, however, I have been thoroughly enjoying the past few weeks in Accra and on Legon Campus. In fact, the weeks are passing by so quickly that it scares me sometimes. I'm nowhere near ready to even think about going back home, yet the semester here is drawing closer to its end in mid-December (that is not to say my time in Ghana, though).
I love watching the sunrise at 6am during the crosscountry-training, it's become a routine to visit the seamstress every week to get another Ghanaian dress, I start freezing at 24°C, I know the little bumps and puddles on my ways around campus like the back of my hand, I don't want to stop hearing the lovely sound of Twi around me, leave alone the (less mysterious) Pidgin, I don't want to take my eyes off the colourful clothes, I am still excited putting on my own Ghanaian dresses, Hiplife moves my feet day and night, embarking on a full-blown shopping trip to Makola Market is thrice as strenous but also four times as exciting as walking around in some shopping centre, and … „Obroni, what do you want! Obroni, I love your country“. - ...and „Oh, Obibini, I love your country even more!“
The  Registry on the hill, along my favourite jogging track  on campus

First Ghanaian dress

Fabrics out of which I had the next four dresses made...


Ghanaian Hiplife - this one promoting monogamy...so dance away!



Many of the things that may have seemed inconvenient, strange, or new almost three months ago are now the normalities of daily life: