Bempale-(Happy New Year)
They tried to fly away with their wings flapping along with their throats that were slit with blood dripping on the ground. They were unable to get more than a couple of feet of the ground before their head would slide sideways and they would fall on their side or onto their back. This would go on for about ten minutes before their life was finally drained from the gash in their neck. After the first two Guinea Fowls (similar to a chicken) that we slaughtered and it least the ten minutes fighting for life and trying to fly away with horrible sounds coming from their beaks and one falling into the gutter their time had come to an end and my neighbor says, “oh oh oh, life is precious oh.” That remark capped of the experience and made me laugh for several minutes. That is how I spent my Christmas with receiving three Guinea Fowls, and a Rooster for gifts. We killed the Guinea Fowls the first day and the rooster I had to keep in the house for a couple of days until I had time to slaughter it. It would start crowing around 4am and go for about three hours. It’s death was the best to watch with it trying to fly with all the life that he had then his head would flop back making him do back-flips repeatedly one after another for about five minutes.
On New Years Eve Day I spent over 7 hours in church-Ghanaians spend New Years Eve morning in church then have an evening service and attend a morning service on New Years Day. This day is a huge event and they are all giving thanks that they made it through another year and pray that they will make it through the next year. New Years evening the down town area is packed with people celebrating. I spent the first part of the day going to market which was much larger than usual and a lot of fun then went to the Chief’s Palace-where every year there is an open celebration that has now schedule but always has the churches coming to give a speech and blessing in the morning then all of the different tribes in the district coming to do a drumming and dancing performance for the chief. The chief’s chair was empty however since the chief has recently past away-he was said to be 140 years old but was probably somewhere in the 90s I am guessing. He was the oldest chief in West Africa and was appointed chief by England when they still occupied Ghana.
Well, I am back to work today and later today I will be building a pull-up and dip bar and the friends house that I exercise at. So that should be fun. Thank you for all your e-mails and support it is always appreciated.
Ku Nye Maga (God gives us tomorrow)
Jason
On New Years Eve Day I spent over 7 hours in church-Ghanaians spend New Years Eve morning in church then have an evening service and attend a morning service on New Years Day. This day is a huge event and they are all giving thanks that they made it through another year and pray that they will make it through the next year. New Years evening the down town area is packed with people celebrating. I spent the first part of the day going to market which was much larger than usual and a lot of fun then went to the Chief’s Palace-where every year there is an open celebration that has now schedule but always has the churches coming to give a speech and blessing in the morning then all of the different tribes in the district coming to do a drumming and dancing performance for the chief. The chief’s chair was empty however since the chief has recently past away-he was said to be 140 years old but was probably somewhere in the 90s I am guessing. He was the oldest chief in West Africa and was appointed chief by England when they still occupied Ghana.
Well, I am back to work today and later today I will be building a pull-up and dip bar and the friends house that I exercise at. So that should be fun. Thank you for all your e-mails and support it is always appreciated.
Ku Nye Maga (God gives us tomorrow)
Jason
posted by Jason in Ghana at 5:30 AM
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