Sheila Goes Ghana 2022

Quick But Oh So Important Post

After work, I got a soft latex foam pillow at Market Day in the next town!!🎉🎊🎊🎉 Tomorrow is my 4 week anniversary of many things here including “sleeping” on a pillow that feels like a hard bag of lumpy potatos!! I had spotted the foam pillows on a Tro Tro ride earlier in the week and finally had a chance to stop. The local staff here at the Volunteer House had a good chuckle when I got home saying that I paid the “Abroney Up Charge” of 57 cedis. Well firstly, that shopkeeper was not having ANY negotiations with this Americano but I wasn’t leaving without that pillow. AND, I paid the equivalent of $5.70 American dollars (aka nothing since everything here is SO cheap). So I told the staff that I was going to have a GREAT 5 more months of sleep with my Perfect 57 Cedi Pillow! No regrets!! 😴🥰

Now a random staff lunch break update from clinic today. A man came by with grilled smoked salmon in a bowl on his head. A few people bought those but the big hit was the next guy with the horseshoe-shaped fried catfish. The staff literally reaches into the pan, takes a whole fish and eats it from lips to tail-bones and all!😲Before this trip, I fancied myself an adventurous eater, maybe even a Foodie. But I am rethinking that because these days, I feel like a toddler that only eats mac and cheese!

Prosper the Physician Asst in center and Joyce the Midwife on R. I LOVE working with these two. They basically run the clinic in Atimpoku where I work every other week.

Sweet Dreams Everyone!! Me and 57 Cedi Pillow are calling it a day. Hope you had a great one💗

Sheila O

9 responses to “Quick But Oh So Important Post”

  1. Our trip to Finland included a “When you are there you have to try everything ONCE moment” (how many times did I say that to exchange students??) Salted herring! MMM ooh – was that salty!!! Tried it once, not again!

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  2. I do agree Betsy, so yes when Prosper offered Me some catfish, I took a tiny bite…smiled, drank some water and won’t be doing that again anytime soon! (When Brie was a toddler, if she didn’t like something I fed her, she would use her two pointer fingers to clean her tongue!. That was tempting today!

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  3. Sheila
    I think you have a future in journalism. I love reading your blog. You give great descriptions of things (no way I would get near any of the things you eat!), your openness and humor are wonderful, your pictures are fantastic and really give me a good feel for the town you’re in and your observations make me feel like I’m right there with you. So glad you got a good pillow and hope that the sleep on the new pillow feels great.
    Sending you a big hug, always

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  4. Hey Sheila! Just wanted to say hi–saw Jen the other night and she turned me onto your blog. SO SO proud of you for taking this adventure! I look forward to reading more about your travels and am glad we can stay in touch this way! ❤

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  5. What a nice way to start my day… reading your comment! Thank you Rachel, I wish you were right here with Me too🤗 I’m so excited to have you here with Me in my blog💗

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  8. Thanks Nadja! I’m so happy you are here! Looking forward to Afric-ing💗
    Keep hitting send prematurely….getting here got a bit crazy this summer but would love to do dinner with you, Jen and Sal in Feb OK? Trivia Night reunion?

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