Its a HOLIDAY!!!!!Happy holiday lovely people[For those at work today,Happy Monday]!How are you spending your holiday/Monday?
Today has so far been awesome!I have been able to get some much needed sleep and I feel very refreshed.Since i have spent most of my day in bed,I will be going out with a friend later tonight.This friend of mine Kofi* is going through a very rough patch and I want to take him out so he can have fun and temporarily forget his worries.Ice creams are his guilty pleasures so tonight,i am taking him to Arleccino ice cream parlour to spoil him silly. Unfortunately for me,i dont eat Ice cream so id be drinking water whiles he indulges in sweet cold ice cream. I really do hope I can cheer him up though. :-)
What are you doing for your Monday/Holiday??Whatever it is,I hope you are having fun!
In my part of the world, Eid celebrations are taking place today. In view of that, Id like to wish all Muslims around the word a happy happy Eid ul fitr. May Allah grant you all your heart desires. Ameen.
Today has been a very colorful day here in Accra.As I was driving in town earlier,I saw a lot of Muslims having fun and celebrating in their beautifully made dresses.[side note-i just love how they have very beautiful fabrics.] Well, the celebrations going on is what inspired today's post on Celebration!
Celebrations area social gathering or enjoyable activity held to celebrate something.Africans never pass up an opportunity to celebrate and have fun-from naming ceremonies,birthdays,weddings, even funerals-they would turn up until they burn out!I am one of those people you would call boring when it comes to celebrations.I am that person who goes for parties and never dances;that person who wouldn't even dance at her own party.I have been told many times that i have a way of taking the fun out of celebrations!.(I am wondering how i would even turn up at my own wedding!)Maybe, I am this way because I am super shy or maybe 'turning up is just not my thing'.There was this one time however that i was the life of a party.It has so far been my best celebration moment.It is the first and only time i reveled and made merry like no one's business. The occasion was at my 18th birthday party. So this is what happened- My friends decided that i had to have a birthday party so we could get to party hard. After months and months of begging my parents, they finally agreed and plans were made towards the party.A couple of schoolmates organised parties right before mine and they were all 'boring'(according to my friends' standards) because there was heavy adult supervision which meant no alcohol or dirty dancing. Thus, my BFF at the time 'purposed in her heart' to make my party the talk of town.We succeeded in convincing my big brother to get hard liquor for the party and also got him to convince the grownups to stay in the main building and let the kids party outside.(He had a huge crush on my BFF so he was willing to do her that favor)Surprisingly,my dad agreed to this arrangement and only came out when it was time for me to cut my cake :) . Long story short, we all got wasted drunk and partied hard till midnight. I remember trying to 'grind' some boy i had a crush on. Mind you, i don't know how to dance so you can just imagine how disastrous it was!My friends taunted me with the video recording for days!(I still get embarrassed every time i remember it).After partying at my house, we decided to continue at a club and it was fun. I got home at 3am and went straight to bed.Even though i had the worst hangover of my life that morning,it was the best the best time i ever had at a party.That morning my dad asked me what time i went to bed and i lied and said 12 30 am. He never found out that i went clubbing till today.(unless he reads this post,then I am doomed!). Writing about my 18th has made me feel all nostalgic!it was truly my best celebration moment.And yes, my party was the talk of town for months.Thanks to my BFF!
Its your turn to spill now!share with me your best/worst celebration moment.
Happy Republic Day Ghana! It has been Fifty five years since Ghana became a republic. Fifty five years since we gained control of everything in our beloved country.Fifty five years since we proved to the world that 'the black man is capable of managing his own affairs'. After Fifty five years, is it still worth celebrating Republic day when almost everything in the country is in shambles?
I bet Dr Kwame Nkrumah is turning in his grave right now. This is not the Ghana he fought for! This is not the Ghana he had hoped to create! After Fifty five years, people still live in abject poverty, we are still experiencing #dumsor,corruption has now become the order of the day, petrol prices are being increased, Accra is still flooding and the floods are killing people, NHIS no longer works, school feeding programme is not as effective, the cedi is experiencing a free fall to major currencies.So many problems!Which way Ghana? Our leaders who fought for our independence and for us to be a Republic must be really turning in their graves! Sonetimes i just loose hope in our political system. Ghana is not about NPP or NDC neither is it about CPP or PPP. Though we are many, we are one people and we need to work together as one irrespective of our political affiliation.
O Mother Ghana! Your children are suffering! and we can only ask for help from above! I believe that if there is going to be a change in the way things are right now, it depends on you and i. we need to be the change we want to see. As the next generation of leaders, we the youth need to rally together and bring our beloved country out of the pit it has fallen into. But, i am thankful. thankful for everything being a Ghanaian has taught me and even as i write this with a heavy heart, i am still convinced that we can make it. I know we can make Ghana work again. I am hopeful and I know Ghana can once again become a beacon if hope. But that can only happen if you and I make an effort
