Just a Few More Days Now

Hello all! Thank goodness I am able to keep you abreast of the journey. It's so ironic because I'll be home probably when most of you read this. Today, we are in Akosombo in the Volta region, where Dr. Ansa is from. We will go to the school he went to as a child and give school supplies to the students, meet parents, teachers, etc. I am excited!

I want to catch all of you up on the story. I am here with some SADDITY NEGROES!!! They all happen to be Howard professors (you know the type). Yep, it's unfortunate. They'd rather go on a safari than meet actual people from Ghana. I fought them hard in the beginning, but now I just tune them out! I'll tell you about the fights in the next blog because this blog is dedicated to Cape Coast~specifically PANAFEST and the Cape Coast Hotel.

PANAFEST was a dream come true. Dr. Leonard Jeffries spoke, the African world convened in downtown Cape Coast for two days straight. There were conscious black folk from far and wide: Suriname, Nova Scotia, Nigeria, Canada, the US (save the Negroes) and just about every island you could think of. People were catchin the spirit. It was a sight to behold! I saw Kali randomly as I was taking everything in! It was amazing. There was even a second line!! With brass bands, umbrellas, and all. Absolutely fantabulous! We were at PANAFEST for 5 hours.

Cape Coast Hotel was another story. Talk about triflin~not to sound like one of the negroes. You know, you pay all this money to Howard (that you all helped me raise) and they put us in the most disgusting hotel they could find. I really think they did that to be cheap because we stayed there the longest. The people didn't change our sheets, clean up, the food was crazy, it was a mess. And just to show you how triflin the hotel was, my friend had a sinus infection due to the mildew in her room: glossy eyes, coughing, sneezing, asthma, the whole nine. So, she sleeps in the lobby for two nights. The 2nd to last night, the management says they want to show her a different room, and she says no thank you because she couldn't stand the mildew. They insist and she follows the manager to a secluded part of the hotel...she had to go behind the counter, outside, up and around corners, thru twists and turns. Finally, she gets to a section of the hotel, and after she showed the rest of his we were T-Otally pissed (sorry Granny). She opens the door~~~ flat screen TV, huge bathroom, tile flooring, king-sized bed, balcony.....on and on! I was speechless!! After being in utter filth for 4 days they had good accomidations! What. Anyway, that's in the past...I'll look back on it and laugh (when I get home). Just wanted to share that with you.