Ich musste in diesem Winter noch kein einziges Mal Schnee schippen, denn anders als in Deutschland habe ich 35° C und Sonnenschein und statt Schnee an Heiligabend gab es weiße Sandstrände.
Weihnachten beach, New Year's Eve in the capital Accra. These are two program points you can still put up with. Together with other volunteers I've sealed off on Christmas Eve of Ghanaian life and not Christmas Eve in the Church, but celebrated under palm trees. On Saturday, 25 December, was destroyed, my expectation of the retreat into the familiar and therefore deserted (er) roads, when I was in Cape Coast have come across the same market activity, as on every Saturday. Since I am told that the GhanaerInnen spend all the holidays almost exclusively in the church and then you get so shocked. From the intermediate target Cape Coast we went to Mankessim, where a host mother to us all for Christmas dinner had been invited. There was the complete selection of Ghanaian dishes abound. But this abundance does not throw away society. After we were all tired, were still mitverköstigt around 30 children from the neighborhood. Who has a lot to deliver something. So perverted this principle is not. can
New Year's Eve in Accra, Ghana's capital, where you can buy cheese and salami, eat in fast food places and feel like in a European capital. This not only sounds great, that it was. Again together with other volunteers and friends, we were in a sky bar with the view of Accra and have initiated shortly after 12 with cocktails at the new year. Once again Ghanaian atypical, because we have a bar in preference to the Church. Also celebrate New Year's Eve, most GhanaerInnen in the church, just as New Year. Why now
month of weakness, if all this sounds hard? It's simple: I celebrated Christmas and New Year not only with other volunteers, but also with malaria and a mild food poisoning.
A week before Christmas, I felt tired and am therefore to the lab for blood test. The result was "mps mps (+)", stands for malaria parasites and the (+) of the intensity of malaria. The weakest form is (+), the strongest (+++). I got medication for three days and painkillers. Since I still quite was fit, I have refrained myself to bed basket. The acknowledgment came pretty quickly and I was inevitably tied to the bed. After three days, the nightmare was over. Conclusion: Malaria (Oh my fright) is quite overrated in Germany. The doctors here in Ghana to know each other through the constant confrontation best of it and the syringes that are used correspond to European standards. In Ghana, a slight to have malaria, is thus the same as a cold in Germany, as long as they can not take it lightly, not dangerous.
Four days before New Year I have an evening again felt uneasy. Thrust, it was fine and then bad again. When I I arrived in Accra, I felt so uncomfortable that I have visited a hospital. Sponsor of the private hospital was a beverage company and the doctors' room - during the examination by the doctor - has an assistant in surfing Facebook. This time it was malaria and the doctor has not speculated on a mild food poisoning. Equipped with electrolytes and painkillers I've been through at least the New Year's Eve to 1 clock before I've fallen into bed exhausted.
Then a little thing of which I will tell: When holidays fall in Ghana on the weekend, to be moved automatically to the factory days. Example: The 25th and 26 December, Saturday and Sunday, so Monday and Tuesday were public holidays. We should start from Ghana to learn!
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