Longer than 2 Easter Vigils

Hello Everyone!
Meg and I are happy to inform you that we will never, and I mean NEVER, complain about sitting through an hour of mass again. Okay maybe Meg has never complained, but I know I have. Yesterday we woke up for mass at 6:30am. We left the convent around 7 after grabbin' an apple for breakfast, and arrived at the church at 7:30. Now just to clear this up, we were warned that mass could possibly last a little longer than we are used to. We thought nothing of it, thinking that maybe it would be almost 2 hours with some extra singing and dancing. To our surprise, mass did not last 2 hours, but it lasted 5. After being delayed 30 minutes, it finally started.... and never ended. The normal parts of the mass were added with multiple offetories, a 45 minute homily said in both English and Twi, guest speakers, gift giving, honoring CYO inductees, a little dancing here and there, and our friend Kwame on the drums. I would like to describe this dancing we are talking about. It's like native tribal movements mixed with hiphop complete with hankerchief swinging around their head like a helicopter. When we get home we will demonstrate as we are practicing nightly in our room. If you are lucky, we will bring my video camera next week. Mass was then followed by 45 minutes of meet and greet outside. Meg and I met 4 girls who were about 13 years old. They were asking us questions and we taught them how to say "flip flop" which does not roll off the tongue too easily for Ghanaians. We then tried teaching them "Sally Sells SeaShells by the SeaShore... and again... it didn't work out too well but it gained a lot of laughs. Overall, the long mass was enjoyable because we truly felt apart of the community here in Kasoa.

We are leaving this afternoon for Takoradi, which is about 3 hours west of Kasoa. We will be there until Friday, exploring the city, going to Cape Coast, visiting an orphanage, and going to the slave castles... We will blog as soon as we return because we have no idea what the internet situation is like there.