Dancing the night away?

Saturday, June 5th 2010 5:39 PM
Tamale, Ghana- Mariam Hotel Restaurant

Today is a semi-rest day. After a little bit of helping to sort out boxes and reorganize the surgery room at the eye clinic, Dr. Wanye let us go for the rest of the day. We went to explore the market, which was similar to Accra’s market in its chaotic nature. The combination of bad smells and extreme heat made most of us retreat to a gas station restaurant for lunch.
After a little bit of talking at the station, most of the volunteers went to the internet café to catch up on email while I parted ways and spent some time at the Mariam Hotel relaxing with a coke, a second lunch, wireless internet, and most importantly, air-conditioning.

We ended the night be having a couple of drinks at the Jungle Bar, and then going to watch a live band play on the roof of one of the local popular hubs in the center of town in Tamale. With the reggae -based music blaring heavily and the night so clear you could easily get lost in the stars above, most everyone went loose and started dancing the night away. I very much appreciated the escalating tempo of the songs that the band played as they neared the time where they were to end. The two girls, Katie and Claire, were especially at the center of attention of the dancefloor, with Marti being a close second with his extremely obscure but entertaining style of dancing. But one thing is for sure, Ghanaians sure know how to dance. Although extremely heavily peer-pressured, I decided against dancing. haha We arrived back at the UFS volunteer house around 1 AM.