Well, another week is about over, ready to head into October! This past weekend was incredible. A group of six of us decided to use the weekend to travel to Ada, a coastal village that is situated between the South Atlantic Ocean and the Volta River. We took a variety of tro-tros to head east about 2 hours. In Ada, there is a market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and getting there on a Saturday, we were able to spend most of the day at the market looking at cloth, eating banku, and playing ping pong with some locals. While I like a lot of the local food here, there are three staples in the Ghanaian diet that I simply do not enjoy: fufu, banku, and a fermented version of fufu (sounds something like “ken-key”). To me,
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