Will In Africa

Independence.

I first must say how nice it has been recieving emails and phone calls from friends and family back home. I'm not sure if I'd be able to handle this voyage in Ghana if it was not for such correspondence. Yesterday I recorded on a Gospel album. While the music is quite frankly pretty bad, I am very excited about the music video they are filming. It will be good comic relief for all of my friends watch such as an embaressing sight as myself in a African Gospel music video. I began my interviews with Jerry Hanson on monday. He is such a wondeful human being although I don't believe I have discussed him in this blog yet. In the early days of Ghana's independence from colonial england Jerry Hanson formed a band named "the Ramblers" which traveled around the world and became a source of pride for Ghana (the first west african country to gain independence). While being featured on numerous television and magizine productions, his life story (as far as I know) has never been documented in a centralized text.
After we discussed his life for a little over an hour, he suggested we share a beer and relax. We drank Star, one of Ghana's the most popular beers.

My friend Duncan who is an Astrophyics/Religious studies major at UC Berkeley is going to have his father bring a Camera for me to Ghana when he travels here next week. This means I WILL HAVE PICTURES SOON! I'm leaving for class now, then to rehearsal. Afterwords I will probably clean my room and get some reading done. (Something which is long overdue)


I learned two new negotiation terms in Twi today!
Tosoi (meaning give me more of that)
Teso (meaning give me that for less money)

Ciao!