It's a chilly summer morning in Buckingham.
One of those mornings that have me wondering if stepping out to go for class is not a thinly disguised punishment for all my sins.
There's a greater good, a bigger picture, a price to be won ... I repeat the usual pep talk that is now almost a ritual.
Normally, once the discussions start, it is worth any trouble. I love being here. Being surrounded by knowledge. Enjoying the sheer brilliance of the brains in one room - endlessly fascinating.
Today, the class is discussing legal entitlement and beneficiary rights.
I watch my fellow student - the really old African man make faces all through the class. Something is seriously bordering his mind about this area of law.
He shifts in his seat, squints his eyes, scratches his head and then rests his head on his palm ... then he repeats the process ... again, again ...
He has my attention now. I'm watching him like an eagle.
Then I see it - a resolve. It's edged on his forehead, he has come to some conclusion. I see him try to catch the lecturer's attention. He doesn't get the lecturer's attention.
Eventually, he raises a frail finger - I'm giddy with anticipation, cant wait to hear about this brain wave from a wise man's musings ... he speaks ... "Why is the law like that?"
Hmmmm ... is my only reaction.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
HELLO ... :)
So someone said to me today that my blog is impersonal. Among other things, he said he felt i wasn't letting myself through and after combing the blog, a reader knows next to nothing about me. OK! Noted! This is me righting the wrong and baring it all. Consider this our second first meeting so, hello ...
I am a Ghanaian living in the UK where the weather is crazy and totally unpredictable.
My biggest blessing is my family - my dad who is the best there could ever be, my mum who is his best friend and just too cool, my twin brothers who are pain and joy rolled in one or two :), amazing cousins, aunties and uncles who are divine, and incredible friends.
I read English and Sociology at the university of Ghana where the lectures were over crowded and my best memories of tutorials were the ones held under the shade of the trees stretching between the English department and the Sociology department. I was in the best hall, Volta hall ofcourse :).
I'm currently reading law at the university of Buckingham where the lecturers know students by name and the learning experience is a delight.
I've had my stints with the media, columnist, features writer ... I like to think its an ongoing relationship. I've also had my NGO days which started with being Ms. SSS Ghana - a youth ambassador and peer educator on HIV/AIDS and social vices, collaborating with the ministry of Women and Children's affairs to organise events and stage concerts for awareness creation. I dabbled in youth activism which involved chasing people for signatures on the Oxford street and then tripping parliament house and meeting caucuses trying to affect legislature.
Then there were the banking days, first with state owned Ghana Commercial Bank and then with privately owned Zenith Bank.
I'm currently jobless, dreaming dreams of becoming the best gladiator in a suit.
Even during my scripture union executive days in Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School, I always maintained I was a practical Christian. Fanaticism doesn't particularly appeal to me for a host of reasons, religious intolerance being uppermost and then a wariness for making religion a "show" and an uneasiness about the whole "righteous" posturing. I do believe in God and I'm totally convinced that he comes through for me whenever i go to him in prayer :) I'm also a firm believer in love - its the only way humanity makes sense, life has not rubbed me of my fantasies - i refuse to let it :)
I can eat fufu three times in one day, i love the taste of watermelon and grapes and i have an acquired taste for strawberries, my latest addiction is ice cream - magnum white, strawberry cheese cake ... (cone over cup, ofcourse) and I'd rather have juice or a drink instead of water.
Now how is this for personal ... ?? :))
I am a Ghanaian living in the UK where the weather is crazy and totally unpredictable.
My biggest blessing is my family - my dad who is the best there could ever be, my mum who is his best friend and just too cool, my twin brothers who are pain and joy rolled in one or two :), amazing cousins, aunties and uncles who are divine, and incredible friends.
I read English and Sociology at the university of Ghana where the lectures were over crowded and my best memories of tutorials were the ones held under the shade of the trees stretching between the English department and the Sociology department. I was in the best hall, Volta hall ofcourse :).
I'm currently reading law at the university of Buckingham where the lecturers know students by name and the learning experience is a delight.
I've had my stints with the media, columnist, features writer ... I like to think its an ongoing relationship. I've also had my NGO days which started with being Ms. SSS Ghana - a youth ambassador and peer educator on HIV/AIDS and social vices, collaborating with the ministry of Women and Children's affairs to organise events and stage concerts for awareness creation. I dabbled in youth activism which involved chasing people for signatures on the Oxford street and then tripping parliament house and meeting caucuses trying to affect legislature.
Then there were the banking days, first with state owned Ghana Commercial Bank and then with privately owned Zenith Bank.
I'm currently jobless, dreaming dreams of becoming the best gladiator in a suit.
Even during my scripture union executive days in Mfantsiman Girls Secondary School, I always maintained I was a practical Christian. Fanaticism doesn't particularly appeal to me for a host of reasons, religious intolerance being uppermost and then a wariness for making religion a "show" and an uneasiness about the whole "righteous" posturing. I do believe in God and I'm totally convinced that he comes through for me whenever i go to him in prayer :) I'm also a firm believer in love - its the only way humanity makes sense, life has not rubbed me of my fantasies - i refuse to let it :)
I can eat fufu three times in one day, i love the taste of watermelon and grapes and i have an acquired taste for strawberries, my latest addiction is ice cream - magnum white, strawberry cheese cake ... (cone over cup, ofcourse) and I'd rather have juice or a drink instead of water.
Now how is this for personal ... ?? :))
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