Sorry I am a little behind in the blogging. Wednesday was Republic Day for Ghana. On Republic Day the kids don't have a school so as a group we went to the bat cave, or just so really cool caves in Ghana that I don't remember the name of. Anyway to take you on this hike we went on there were 6 caves we went in. The first was a little crawl in crawl out cave and from there they progressively got harder. The third cave is the kicker. To get inside of this cave you have to crawl backwards and down a ladder. While you are crawling you have to avoid the bats flying out of the same small hole. A fellow volunteer, on my turn of course, decided to shine her head lamp on a group of bats inside of the cave. As I was climbing in about 12 bats come flying out. Figures. After a lot of coaxing I was talked into trying to crawl again. The caves were really neat some required so more crawling, rock climbing without gear and a lot of water dripping and mud. Thank goodness we had our fearless leaders, George, Dela, Joe and Boss with his machete.
Now as I was talking with my mother the other day, she was wondering if all I eat is choco delight. Well, although it is a nice treat all the time when I am not eating meals that is not all I eat. I also eat Fan Choco (frozen chocolate milk) :). Ghana is famous for it's chocolate so I definitely came to the right place. A few things that they eat here are rice, pasta, rice, potatoes, rice, pineapple and mango. They change the all carb diet up occasionally by adding a red sauce made from a pepper called a Pom nut and sometimes throwing in green peppers and chicken or occasionally beef. When I was in Cape Coast I ate a dish called Red-Red which is black-eyed peas and a red sort of sauce over chicken and fried plantains(yumm..they are like bananas). There has also been some interesting stuff I have eaten. Banku is one it looks like a ball of mushed up rice which is made of corn flour. To eat this banku, you dip it in okro soup. To describe this soup to you better, it looks like a spinach soup in an orange juice but when you dip the banku, it strings up like it has cheese in it. I didn't eat very much that night. For the most part I really enjoy the food there isn't a lot of variety but, it is very tasty and has enough spice to please my tongue. It has really made me appreciate though the variety of foods we have in the states. One more thing that I have eaten a lot of is crackers. That is about all they have in a gas station is dozens of types of cream crackers. I think I will be okay without crackers for a while.
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