Only in Ghana... (via me, Eliya, and friends!)

1) will you see a middle-aged man dodging traffic while crossing a motorway divider with a full-sized refrigerator balanced on his head

2) would I get picked up by a taxi driver who immediately calls me his wife, teaches me how to say I love you in Twi, and proceeds to play romantic slow jams all the way to campus

3) can you find a physics major who believes in witchcraft

4) will a devout Muslim, praying 5 times a day, describe his (apparently many) sexual escapades as a “smash and dash”

5) will someone who you only know because someone sitting next to you on a tro-tro gave you their number spend the whole weekend showing you around their home town

6) is hissing at someone an appropriate way to get their attention

7) does a full day of research constitute migration from library to library in attempt (and subsequent failure) to check out two library books

8) is an Asian-American considered “white”

9) can you hire someone to be a walking shopping cart – following you around and carrying everything you purchased on their head

10) can a completely untrained volunteer watch 15 eye surgeries take place on his first day at work

11) can homosexuality be widely considered a sin while men walk around holding hands freely and joyfully

12) do you have to worry about your pet cat being hunted down with a slingshot and roasted for dinner by a dining hall cook

13) will you have five different people hold your hand and walk you a significant portion of your way to your destination

14) does “SOS” have two very different meanings

15) is there a Jewish community of Ghanaians named “Shalom Shalom”

16) can you watch a boy of age 8 climb a 40 foot coconut tree to smack down some coconuts as snacks for arriving guests

17) is a dousing of motor oil applied with a bare finger used as a treatment for a fresh second-degree burn

18) can you hear a biology teacher ask, in a mocking tone, whether there are “any atheists in the room.”

19) will a lady you met once proceed to call you more than 60 times in 72 hours, send you a loving text message asking you to be her Valentine, and after receiving no response call you from a different number so she can interrogate you about why you have been ignoring her.

20) will a friend who can hardly afford to pay his own school fees refuse to allow you to spend a cent on anything while you visit him