Happy St. Patrick's Day
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I am off this morning to go and practice before the music department program at 10:30. The group of german students will be drumming and dancing, and the university brass band and a few other groups will perform as well.
Last night I saw a Ghanaian political show on TV...They were discussing some of the issues here in Ghana. A major concern is poverty and especially the huge split between the rich and the poor. The figures they gave were: the top 10% of the population make 40% of the income while the bottom 40% make only 7% of the income.
That would seem to make sense from my observations. There are some very big homes close to where I am staying, and I have seen a lot of very nice cars driving around and parked in the hotel parking lot - and yet there are many people here that do not have much at all...
I must confess I had many ideas about what Arica would be like; now that I am here I realize many of our conceptions of Africa are wrong...or at least a little off base.
That is all for now.
Cheers,
Patrick
I am off this morning to go and practice before the music department program at 10:30. The group of german students will be drumming and dancing, and the university brass band and a few other groups will perform as well.
Last night I saw a Ghanaian political show on TV...They were discussing some of the issues here in Ghana. A major concern is poverty and especially the huge split between the rich and the poor. The figures they gave were: the top 10% of the population make 40% of the income while the bottom 40% make only 7% of the income.
That would seem to make sense from my observations. There are some very big homes close to where I am staying, and I have seen a lot of very nice cars driving around and parked in the hotel parking lot - and yet there are many people here that do not have much at all...
I must confess I had many ideas about what Arica would be like; now that I am here I realize many of our conceptions of Africa are wrong...or at least a little off base.
That is all for now.
Cheers,
Patrick
posted by Patrick Roulet at 12:30 AM
2 Comments:
Happy St. Pat's Day to YOU!!! Thanks again for the travelogue...it's exciting to hear all your adventures. SSSSSSSSSS!!
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Patrick! We'll be saluting you with potato soup and Irish Soda bread tonight. cheers.
R
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