Parties - Around and Aboot

Firstly I apologise for the lack of fotos. There are plenty, just on my camera, and I'm struggling uploading, because the connection is slow, and Dagney's away, and she has the best memory card, uploader thingy. majiggy

Anyway...so onto this weekend.
I was rather tempted to devote this post to my weekend's travels. But I need to mention Friday night, which saw the TPA end of month party, postponed a week, because it coincided slightly with Halloween. After Becky's pleading, there was a Halloween theme, and every attendee, was meant to dress up. There was to be a prize for the best dressed - Becky, clearly desperate to either be the best dressed, or win this prize, set about coming up with an idea for the costume.

So we emerged with pumpkins as the most practical. Papermache pumpkins - over our clothes of course...but how to make them. We needed some pretty enormous ball size thing to papermache.
In Maxmart, we found what we were looking for; BEACHBALLS. So from last Tuesday, we searched for old newspaper, flour, and of course water, to make the mixture. Once this had dried, we covered the balls in PVA (so universal, even Ghana sells). By Thursday, we were painting in Orange, green and black. We even had hats!

It was a fabulous costume, and as we walked receiving EVEN MORE HARRASSMENT THAN USUAL, we anticipated a great reception.
Disappointingly; Accra let us down, with only Nickee and Elaine dressing up, and the word not spreading round the other regions. Still the pumpkins became a source of entertainment for the evening, particularly as a DANCING AID! And the Halloween theme, was still there - shades of Volunteers attempting to eat apples on string, without using there hands "its all about your technique guys!"
and typical Ghanaian style, waiting 2 hours for food to arrive.
All in all, a great night.