søndag den 9. oktober 2011

Games in Ghana (football and drafts)

Playing football wearing my white IBP United outfit has given my outfit a shade of red from the dust which is everywhere… Ghanaians have excellent flair and skill, both in the offence and in the defence, but they are really not strong as a collective…


Bought a drafts game (checkers), and learned to play with Ghanaian rules. Ghanaian rules? All tricks are allowed, so precaution and creativity is rewarded! (And sometimes a bit of luck comes in handy). Oh, by the way, the rules are up for discussion. Chiefs are usually not allowed to play drafts because humiliation is at stake.

Together with the 4 interns at the Danish embassy I saw Ghana beat Swaziland 2-0 at the Accra Stadium! The supporters form different groups each singing and drumming their own songs and dressed in the colours of their own group, not the team they are supporting… The resulting noise – a humming, drumming, vibrating feeling – was as loud as if a goal was being scored every moment of the match. At least there was no change in the volume on the occasions when that did happen.

1 kommentar:

  1. Tak for update! Det lyder til at du har det skønt. Tá en gekko med hjem. Og en kokosnød. Og en snegl i grøn sovs. Og et fodboldhold. Man får lyst til at bytte efterårsferien i Skagen med din farmor ud med en tur til Ghana. African køs fra auntie i

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