1. Cross-walks are where you race across the road when there is a slight break in traffic or if someone looks as it they MIGHT slow down.
2. You could make sturdy workboots out of most of the meat sold in Africa.
3. African women have a very clever and efficient way of carrying their babies (you can even dance while you carry them) -- see photo.
4. Everyone seems to have a mobile phone. They skipped the handset version and jumped straight to mobiles. It's not uncommon to see a telecommunications tower standing in the middle of a village with mud and thatch huts.
5. A vehicle is considered unroadworthy when the horn doesn't work. All other faults are ignored.
6. People don't die in Ghana -- they are 'called home' or 'promoted to glory'. Wonder what you have to do to define the difference. I hope to be promoted, but not too soon!
7. Grasscutters are a food -- look it up.
8. When you buy eggs in the market, find out whether they have already been hard-boiled. We lucked out the day we made egg salad sandwiches for dinner. Glad we weren't planning to do scrambled eggs for breakfast.
9. Some remote Nigerian villages give such a warm welcome that you might believe you have won the World Cup.
10. Border crossings are where you try to get rid of one currency before switching to another. That means you buy some weird stuff. I've bought roasted peanuts, laundry soap, bath soap, bags of water and coconut liqueur. All the peanuts and water are gone, but haven't yet used any of the rest.
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