That's right, I ate banku *voluntarily* for dinner tonight. I've probably described it before but banku is just like fufu and kenkey and all the other heavy foods here. It's a ball of dough thats made of mashed up corn and slightly fermented in a bowl of groundnut (peanut) soup that you eat with your hands. I like it better when it's not in the soup and instead you eat it with grilled tilapia and a pepper sauce.
I've been at a loss of what to eat these days, but the most important criteria for me lately is that it's cheap. And what cheaper way is there to get really full than eating a 50 pesewes ($.30) ball of dough? I made sure to buy some pineapple and watermelon for dessert to try and balance my diet... Also, even though I'm not a huge fan of the heavy foods here, I might as well eat them while I can because there isn't anywhere in the states that's serving homemade banku or fufu, that's for sure.
I've been thinking more about my trip to Belize lately (I'll be there in exactly one month!) and I might try to keep up this blog and write about my research there. Though for at least 4 weeks I'll be completely without internet so I'll probably have to rely on my journal entries and field notes and then blog based on that.
I have an exam at 7:30am tomorrow (Friday the 13th...good thing I'm not too superstitious) that I've been studying for all week. Aside from the studying this week I haven't really been doing much of anything. It's making time go by slower and also making me want to be home even more. I've hardly been off campus in at least a week but today I went into town for a few errands and though I started out my excursion feeling irritated by the city and everyone around me, I met more than a few nice people along the way who brightened my day and reminded me why I'm going to miss Ghana.
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