Strange beginnings this morning but it wasn’t anything that couldn’t be fixed with a VIA, powdered milk and Katie’s special breakfast rice. After breakfast I began finishing off the blouse and helped organized what we have made in the way of patterns thus far.
Organized, flats on the computer, write ups of how the pattern pieces should be sewn together.
Went into Elmina. When we arrived at the office we printed out everything that we had typed up and gave it to Dorkus. Dorkus is the woman in charge of the patterns within Quality Control. Waited for her to go over the patterns and make sure she understood what everything meant. While we were waiting I was able to get a hold of Mr. James Kessler which made my day. Unfortunately I had to cut our conversation short because everyone was waiting on me to leave and go shopping for our big family dinner. Jessica, Jorden, Katie, Nick and I had decided that we would give a go attempting to make a Mexican fiesta dinner. The plan was to buy corn flour to make tortillas, beans, plantain and avocado to make guacamole, tomatoes, onions, rice, corn and salad. Our grocery shopping around Elmina was a big success minus the avocado and corn flour. What we thought was corn flour turned out to be corn starch, too bad none of us can read Arabic writing. The avocados are now out of season so no one Cape Coast which I very sad about; in recent weeks they have been the largest and most flavorful avocados I’ve tasted.
Once we had bought all the supplies we headed back to the house for the day. The beans we supposed to take around four hours to soak so we had to get them in right when we got back. After getting the beans in soak we started to make homemade salsa with garlic, tomatoes and onions. We let that sit for a while as well to let the entire flavors soak in. Since we didn’t find any avocados we used the plantains we had bought and dipped then in the salsa.
Katie and I took a walk over to Sea Top to ask Kristina if she sells any flour for us to make the tortilla bread. When we asked she said she didn’t sell any but she did have some at the house and sent one of her workers to fetch it for her. When the girl came back Kristina bagged some up for us, bagged it up and told us that she was “dashing” it to us and that there was no charge. I was so excited, I had my first dash. I read so much about dashing things before I came and thought it would happen quite frequently. I think it only really happens when you are close friends so it’s nice to think that Kristina considers us as close friends.
Back at the house we finished up cooking our fiesta and sat up on the porch to demolish it. After dinner we cleaned up at bit and Katie, Nick, Jorden, Jessica and I headed over to Sea Top for drinks and to meet up with Steve and Tom. It was early when we left Sea Top and when we got back to the house someone thought up the brilliant idea of playing in the rain and mud outside the house. I haven’t had a mud fight in who knows how long, it was a ton of fun and the pictures are great. Small Boy got the worst of it for sure.
Once again we were back at the house cleaning off; this time took longer than most. When we were all clean everyone but Katie and I were too tired to go back out so we headed back over to Sea Top by ourselves. The place was packed now; I believe from the Elmina Festival. There wasn’t anywhere to sit so we were put at a table with a bunch of locals. It was a bit strange at first but we ended up having a bunch of fun. They Ghanaians had bought a bunch of sausages to share with us which made Katie feel a bit guilty so she ordered a bottle of Cardinal to share with them. I will be happy to never drink that crap again. Each time they took shots I just passed mine along to the next person so I didn’t have to drink any of it. I was able to dodge all but one.
Cravings: Movie Nights!
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