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Wednesday 12 January 2011

Various celebrations in Ghana - life is all about parties. It is!!!

Latvian Independence day on Nov 18th!
25th b-day! An adventure on its own!
Kate visited me for a few days and we celebrated X-mass together!

New Year in style with new friends!!!
1St weekend of 2011 spent in a 4star BB - I deserve good things!

Harmattan* or how not to dry out in Ghana.

I personally kept mixing up the two words - Harmattan and Ramadan, sounds similar, ah?! Well, it is Harmattan time in Ghana and every one and everything is drying out and trying not to die from the dust in the air! Literary, if you leave your book on the table in your living room overnight and then pick it up the next morning, you will be able to see where your book was! This is how bad it gets! Min 3 showers a day, if you can afford it, constant feeling that your eyes are drying out and your throat is itchy. Not a nice one, I tell you!

In past, when people would tell me about the dry season, I imagined that it is something like - very hot weather and just no rain. But no - dry really means dry! Your lips are dry most of the time every day, laundry dries in no time and dust is everywhere! I think I might need to vacuum clean my PC.