Who is Ghana Sal?!

So we in the house have been recently wondering about how much we will change when we get back home, but I've since been thinking not about what I'll be like when I'm home but what I'm like here!

• Ghana Sal is always dirty. Here, she is constantly washing she feet only for them to be mucky five minutes later. And, apart from the feet obsession, she has never cared less about her appearance! Her hair has never been curlier, her eyebrows have never received less attention and her facial regime (admittedly only ever reasonable) is sporadic at best and non existent at worst! The only things Ghana Sal remembers to do with any regularity is brush her teeth and take her malaria tablets!
  
• Ghana Sal now has a mixture of German/Danish/Ghanaian English sayings, words and phrases mixed into her speech. Whoever said that English is the national language of Ghana was extremely, extremely wrong!
• Ghana Sal says "movie" instead of "film" and "light out" instead of "power out".
• Ghana Sal is extremely adept at showering in one third of a bucket of water. If she needs to wash her hair too then she simply leans over the bucket so that the water falls back in again.
• Ghana Sal experiences pure joy when the water is running which allows her to a) fill up the tubs b) wash the pots/her hands from the tab c) have a shower when the water comes FROM THE SHOWER HEAD
• Like UK Sal, food makes Ghana Sal happy, only the happy-food is slightly different! Good food includes mango, cookies, jolof rice, fried rice with chicken, rice balls with groundnut soup and spaghetti (with bolognaise, but for some reason Ghana Sal misses off the bolognaise part because spaghetti from her food lady (Gladys) comes with nothing else)! Unhappy foods include yams because they are too boring, meat because it is like chewing leather and is most likely goat, and fish because the bones are impossibly small and impossible to remove).
• Ghana Sal misses the cold, and wearing a jumper, which is definitely different! Rain (when nice and safe inside) is welcome because it means the weather may be cooler if only for a little while! Being somewhere with air conditioning (the internet cafe) is the ultimately luxury and the idea of a fridge and a fan in the house is like imagining the impossible and most unobtainable!
• Ghana Sal plays A LOT of solitaire and for someone who whilst in England listens to very little music has a surprising addiction to her lovely ipod (with the solitaire and lots of movies!)
• Ghana Sal considers 10pm a late bedtime and waking up at 8am as a massive achievement in sleeping!
  
• Ghana Sal knows how to use skype. UK Sal did not have a clue. On the other hand, Ghana Sal has never facebooked or emailed less!!
• Finally, Ghana Sal is often known only as "obruni" but is making progress in this department and is now "Sally" to many of the children, although obruni still slips out with frustrating regularity!
  
  There are of course of some similarities!:
• Both Sal's love fruit!
• Both Sal's love eating!
• Both Sal's love the sun, but one sweats and likes the shade a lot more than the other one!
• Both Sal's find the city tiring, and love the countryside - Ghana or England!
• Both Sal's love reading
• Both Sal's adore watching Grey's Anatomy with her housemates! Ghana or England!
  
  
  So there ya go :) everyone in England must wear a jumper and think of me!

Love, Sal xxxxxx