Yum, gravy

Pilgrims? No. Harvest? No. Family? Sadly, no. 

But turkey? Yes! While you were all tearing into your big birds, well, so were we. Of course Thanksgiving is not celebrated here in Ghana by the locals, but it is by the ex-pats, of which there is a huge community. Our own gathering was thanks to the US Ambassador who invited a big group of ex-pats – mainly Peace Corps members – to his residence for turkey and all the trimmings. Yum, it really was great – lotsa gravy and even pumpkin pies,  sans the whipping cream. (Dairy is not big here.) There were 16 turkeys! The PC-ers dove into the beer and food line as if they were starving, but there was a little left for the likes of us!

Ambassador  Donald Teitelbaum at the turkey table

It was fun and a chance to meet interesting people. One young woman is in Kumasi studying childhood pneumonia, another woman is here with her 9-yr.-old daughter, also in Kumasi, doing research on street girls. And there are lots of other interesting projects going on.

Our tax dollars at work. Nice residence, a little different from our flat.

The ambassador’s residence is very nice, including a big collection of art from the National Gallery. He declined the opportunity to switch homes for a weekend, can’t imagine why. 

The next day we left on a trip in our CAR! That is something we are really thankful for – we have a small-but-strong Yaris and we gave it an inaugural voyage east of the Volta. More on that in the next post. We are also thankful for our friends and family, all of you who let us do this crazy thing that we do.

 

Little Abena (Tuesda) Saree-Su (after the person who managed the money to purchase it), our car ...