Monday, March 19, 2007
Ghana's 50th Independence Day.
Yes it was Independence Day - but we all had to work that day, but the staff still wanted to celebrate 
so they showed up in varying shades of the green red and yellow that are the colors of the Ghanaian flag as illustrated in the hair of Rosanne one of the kitchen help. The Ghana 50th T shirts were evident every where - in this photo we have left to right - Selasi - our cleaning lady supreme, Sister Howard, our caterer in the kitchen, Rosanne, kitchen help, Deli our superb laundry lady and finally Joyce another kitchen helper. They were just preparing to give the new missionaries a tour of the facility.
Here we have Issac and Josuah - both workers in kitchen - Josuah is the small one wrapped in the ghanan flag - Issac is wearing the anniversary T shirt. They delivered to our apartment that morning a big flag, a smaller flag and some brochures on the holiday
Last but not least, Sister Nielson making use of the smaller flag we received - looks surprising alert for the night she had passed. At midnight, fireworks started going off - we assumed perhaps the refinery which is about two kilometres away had sponsored them, but they went on and one - probably about 45 minutes, and they actually shook our MTC as they exploded - but they were colorful - celebrating the holiday. We found out next morning they were being set off just two blocks from the MTC and that is the reason they were shaking our facility. They estimated that the government spent around 20 million dollars in celebration - there were flags everywhere - and it was so colorful, but you wonder when so many people are so poor - but even the poor seemed to enjoy the holiday very much - maybe money isn't the basic need people have!!!
so they showed up in varying shades of the green red and yellow that are the colors of the Ghanaian flag as illustrated in the hair of Rosanne one of the kitchen help. The Ghana 50th T shirts were evident every where - in this photo we have left to right - Selasi - our cleaning lady supreme, Sister Howard, our caterer in the kitchen, Rosanne, kitchen help, Deli our superb laundry lady and finally Joyce another kitchen helper. They were just preparing to give the new missionaries a tour of the facility.
Here we have Issac and Josuah - both workers in kitchen - Josuah is the small one wrapped in the ghanan flag - Issac is wearing the anniversary T shirt. They delivered to our apartment that morning a big flag, a smaller flag and some brochures on the holiday 
Last but not least, Sister Nielson making use of the smaller flag we received - looks surprising alert for the night she had passed. At midnight, fireworks started going off - we assumed perhaps the refinery which is about two kilometres away had sponsored them, but they went on and one - probably about 45 minutes, and they actually shook our MTC as they exploded - but they were colorful - celebrating the holiday. We found out next morning they were being set off just two blocks from the MTC and that is the reason they were shaking our facility. They estimated that the government spent around 20 million dollars in celebration - there were flags everywhere - and it was so colorful, but you wonder when so many people are so poor - but even the poor seemed to enjoy the holiday very much - maybe money isn't the basic need people have!!!# posted by Ghana Gazette @ 3:06 PM 
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Will you be posting a picture of the neww missionaries soon. Wondering about the missionaries from the beginning of march?? just wondering how elder lewis is doing
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