I made it back to Ghana safely yesterday, and it sure feels good to be in a place where I know what’s going on and people speak English. After my last entry, I was planning on going to Dogon country and then back to Ghana, but luckily I ran into my friend Brian from Ghana in a back alley of Timbuktu. He convinced me to go to the Festival in the Desert with him and some other people from Ghana. So two days later we climb into the back of a pickup to drive the 70km out into the desert to a tiny town of Essakane where the festival is held. Just when I think it may be a comfy ride, we get out and they pile about 25 small mattresses and other cargo in the truck, so me and about 14 other people have to ride on top of a huge load and hang on for dear life for 2 hours while we drive across deep sand at high speeds. Glad to safely be there, I met up with my friends and bought a cheap ticket from a South African woman who bought one not realizing Africans get in free. The festival was three nights of Malian music that was really good and unique. Some say that the blues originated in Mali and was brought to America by Malian slaves. I met a lot of really interesting people since it was such an international crowd. The time flew by of course, and soon it was time to head back. A group of eight of us banded together to make the three day trip back to Ghana. This went pretty well for the most part, and we are all really glad to be back.
Now I am picking out new classes for next semester. I have a lot of freedom and should get to take some really interesting ones, I will post when I find out which. Its funny to watch the people who just arrived here from the U.S. They seem so lost and baffled.
Anyway, overall I had an amazing trip, but i looking forward to relaxing for a while and taking some fun classes.
Thanks to everyone for your support, I wish you could have been with me. Can’t wait to tell you about it in person
Love, Forest
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Hey Forest! See, the karmic Cosmos has you under it's wing, keeping you safe, happy and getting what you want, or at least what you need!You are a channel of grace and blessings, and i so love hearing what your world looks like to you!!
The energy here is high on Obama, sworn in the day after Martin Luther King Day, such kismet!(ie. meant to be!}
Here's a KIng quote " I HAVE A DREAM THAT MY FOUR LITTLE CHILDREN WILL ONE DAY LIVE IN A NATION WHERE THEY WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, BUT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER" 1963
With a black man in the white House his Dream is coming alive!!! This Nation i brought you into, so abundant, yet so terribly wrong and flawed, is trying to evolve beyond it's selfish, delinquent manifestations, as more and more of the population, and especially you youth, see a vision beyond the self centered American Dream!! Halllelujah!! Momelle. Write soon! What's your fly home date?
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