A few Sundays ago at LIC, I met four people that have become good friends: Akweley, Debbie, Eric, and Akourkor. They sing in the choir at church. I asked them, along with Collins, if they wanted to grab lunch together after church. They said they would (though it was clear that was not their first choice plan, but they wanted to show me hospitality by giving me their time). Despite my protests, they bought me waakye from the night market and we ate it at their house, which is beside Akuafo Hall.
While eating, they invited me to a gospel concert called Evolution 7. I accepted the invitation. As my entire experience would lead me to believe, I expected the concert to be around 3 hours.
It was over 6 hours long.
By the end of the concert I was so tired and hungry that I felt dizzy. It would have been the perfect time to feel the spirit.
On the drive to the concert, Akourkor and I were listening to some gospel music by some famous Ghanaian gospel musicians. As we were parking the car, one of the artists we had been listening to was parking beside us. I opened my door, walked up to him and told him it was a pleasure to see him and that we were just listening to his music. He said the pleasure was his. Only in Ghana.
Coming out of the concert, I was asked if I would be interviewed for TV. I said yes and they interviewed me. It would be the second time I was on Ghanaian television in a week!Today one of my classmates came up to me and told me she saw me on TV. I made it look like it was no big deal. ;)
In Canada, if a concert went on for 6 hours, I would be frustrated. I might even have left. Somehow, in Ghana, it is just like that. No one would have said that the concert would be that long, but I am sure that it was that long all seven years it has been happening. Time has a different meaning here. And I love adjusting to that. It has been a learning experience for me to just be, without knowing how long I will stay or what I will get from the experience. That kind of patience has rewards that are much different from the scheduled life I was living in Vancouver.
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