In Ghana
Jessie Elemans (22), a third-year-student at the Teacher Training College for Primary Education (PABO), does her traineeship at a primary school in Akatsi, Ghana. She keeps a Dutch weblog and also shares her experiences in SENSOR.
It is not allowed to sit with your legs crossed
After having been in
To say "no" is very difficult
Moreover, do not expect people to meet you immediately when they actually said they would come immediately. We have frequently experienced people saying: “I’ll be there in five minutes”, while it actually lasted at least an hour. The fact is, to say “No” here is very difficult as it is even more difficult to accept a “No”. We experience often that people talk to you because you are white, and the sentence ‘I love you, can I have your phone number so we can get married’ is very popular here. If you give many good reasons for not giving your phone number to any random stranger, you receive a lot of arguments back why you actually should share your phonenumber. The meaning of the word ‘no’ is hard to understand.
Know your day of birth
A thing you definitely should know when you visit
Of course we didn’t know what day we were born when we came here, and the fact that we had to ask our mothers caused the people who had asked us to fall of their chair in astonishment.
To consume a meal alongside the streets is very popular in
