A New Meaning to Fast Food

While driving to and from Kumasi, I have come to discover a new meaning for fast food. When driving anywhere in the city you will find these "fast food" vendors. It reminds me of Blue Comedy Collar tour where he talks about spontaneous buys such as hot tubs at the county fair. This applies to Ghana. Just in case you didn't have a mirror to check out if you have food in your teeth in the car, why settle for a hand-held? You can buy a full length mirror right in the comfort of your car. There are various things you can buy but I wanted to talk about the food. Our crazy driver, who apparently got hungry on his drive was able to get his meal, roasted snails and some water pouches. This process goes like this. The vendors walk by your car and reach in your window if open or stand there staring at you. All you have to do is reach out your hand and there it is. I actually saw one situation where a woman was running after the car, grabbing food off her head while the car was passing the food down and exchanging the money. Like I said, a new meaning to fast food. Talk about service!
Well today was a normal day, I went to my placement at Happy Kids where the kids are, very happy. P.S. Tara if you want some twins Peter and Paul are adorable. Basically I want to take a lot of them home though :). The lady said it wasn't hard to adopt but I am not sure if she fully comprehended either. I am really enjoying my placement and wishing that I had more time. I can't believe that this is my last week and I only have 3 more days here!! Where did the time go? I am not going to lie, tears will be shed. I know big surprise to those of you that know me well :). I am teaching the 6-7 year old kids the alphabet sounds and trying to show them how to blend words. It is a bit trickier since they don't have a big English vocabulary and they can't tell if the words sound right. I do have some bright kids in my class and I feel very much at home teaching these kids how to read. Again, I wish I had more time.
We had our last Ewe lesson today and learned our African names, my name I made up Afi, since it goes by what day of the week you were born and I don't know. But don't be surprised if I am fluent when I get home...yeah right. One thing that you may need to be warned about however. Some girls were laying out trying to convert themselves from Yevu to Amaybo(black person). They asked our guard Alpha how many more times they would have to lay out to become Amaybo. Thinking it was a clever question and after getting a lot of sun that day, I asked Alpha how many times I would have to lay out. He just laughed and said I am already Amaybo.
A few other important details, I saw my first huge African spider today in our house. It wasn't huge I guess but big and nasty and it almost escaped and I almost lost the ability to sleep the rest of the week with it on the loose. I have also found besides big spiders, that men here are anxious to get married...another reason to stay here. After stepping out of the cab I immediately got a "I'll marry you" no questions asked. Wow that easy huh.
Other than the marriage proposal and big spider, life is great here.