CHURCH
Today I went to church with three other Obruni. One of them is a regular there as he is doing a type of research based internship with the Catholic Chuch in Tamale. The other two are Canadian nursing students who are doing a month placement at the teaching hospital in Tamale. The chuch itself appears to quiet flash for Ghanain standards. All those who attended appear to be wearting their best clothes with the women all wearing studding traditional clothes . I however just made sure that I was wearing a skirt and top that appeared clean.
The mass itself took about 2 hours though 30mins of it was taken up with notices. There was a lot of singing which was lead by either the youth choir or the traditional choir. The traditional choir were fantastic. Lots of drumming combined with native instruments that make sounds simular to the ziolophone and shackers. Both choirs had their own uniforms. The children even sung a special song for the concregation which was great.
The service itself appears to follow very clossly with what I am use to at home and I even found myself mouthing many of the words that were said. The priests sermon however was very related to life here in Africa which was nice to see.
Durring the notices the four of us were suddenly asked to come up and introduce ourselves. I did this as quickly as possible. As we were sitting down the lady reading the notices comments that if you could not understand our accents then she is sorry, but that they have to remember that we often have trouble with theirs.
On the whole it was a really nice experience. Im glad that I stayed an unplanned extra day in Tamale for it. The people were really friendly and so proud (if that is the right word) that we came.
The mass itself took about 2 hours though 30mins of it was taken up with notices. There was a lot of singing which was lead by either the youth choir or the traditional choir. The traditional choir were fantastic. Lots of drumming combined with native instruments that make sounds simular to the ziolophone and shackers. Both choirs had their own uniforms. The children even sung a special song for the concregation which was great.
The service itself appears to follow very clossly with what I am use to at home and I even found myself mouthing many of the words that were said. The priests sermon however was very related to life here in Africa which was nice to see.
Durring the notices the four of us were suddenly asked to come up and introduce ourselves. I did this as quickly as possible. As we were sitting down the lady reading the notices comments that if you could not understand our accents then she is sorry, but that they have to remember that we often have trouble with theirs.
On the whole it was a really nice experience. Im glad that I stayed an unplanned extra day in Tamale for it. The people were really friendly and so proud (if that is the right word) that we came.
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