May 24 - Dinners of Tall Tales!!

Well we are settled in at work and even have our own fabulously disco cell phones (see photo)now (incoming calls only…talked to mom and dad from the restaurant on the bay last night!) and the folks around the office recognize us and are making amazing efforts to help us feel at home.

The last two nights have included ‘tall tale’ dinners with our Plan SLE team member Nana. Man can this fellow tell a story. He’s amazing! On Wednesday we learned all about leaves that make people bullet-proof and how his grandfather used to teleport to random locations when he was scared. Just wicked stuff. Last night his Ghanian friend Kwame joined us (which may or may not be his real name as Kwame means Saturday and people are often nick-named based on the day they were born), regardless Kwame was right in with the tales and the two of them told us all kinds of things about funeral rituals for Kings in Ghana and people who will ask for money so that you can try to cut them with a blade for this they have become impervious but that we should turn the knife around and smack them with it to hurt them. It was so funny and as they said, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’!