Wake Up With Me In Winneba: Aboakyer 2017

I have now gotten some rest and the energy to write and blog about Aboakyer 2017. I do not have much to write and enough pictures to add to it.

So they said the fun started on Thursday, when the #LemonThursday took place. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend. For me, the fun started Friday night, after my last class. Town was very full and alive. I bought a drink, Bricafi Drink, and laughed with friends, and laughed at them, especially those who fell into the gutter.

Saturday morning, I woke up…..late, watched some PrettyLittle Liars episodes and went out at 1pm. I could not attend the deer hunt, but I heard they caught a very tall one. Victory.

In the afternoon, there was a royal procession. This was my first time of watching the procession, even though I have witnessed the festival 4 times. Bummer.

At nighttime, Winneba was alive and full of people, music, drinks and food.

On Sunday, we went to the Run-Off Bar and Restaurant to meet Lil’ Win. He came to town. Who would want to miss dancing to “Mama Boss Papa”?

Monday was my resting day. Funnily enough, town was very empty.

Where have all the people gone?

This year’s Aboakyer was one of the best according to moi.

See you next year. You can’t afford to miss.

p.s. Wikipedia has got you covered if you want to know what the festival is all about

Inspiration took a walk

Happy May Day! and happy Aboakyer week from Winneba

Since the end of the Easter celebration, I have not been my creative self. I do not feel inspired to write or dream of anything, not to talk of doing something. I usually experience this sort of feeling as a writer a lot of times, but this one was just too much. I told my best friend about it and he told me I should socialize more.

First of all, I did not need socialization at that time. I need some time alone. Also, as a proud introvert, we do not appreciate socialization, even though, sometimes, in my opinion, socialization is fun.

I read some quotes, read my dreams and goals. Still, inspiration was nowhere to be found. Inspiration took a walk, without telling me it was going for a walk.

We, introverts, have mastered the art of finding ourselves when we are alone. Unfortunately, it did not work for me at the time that I needed it. I needed to go out.

One Saturday, I visited the beach with a friend to find inspiration. I stared at the ocean, trying hard to find a lesson. It just made mighty noise, telling me that he still rules the beach.

I shook my head….but one thing came into my mind.

I should keep my friends close.

Even though, the waves comes to the shore to steal a kiss from it, it comes back to hug them for a little longer. Friends are like that. Some get new friends and ignore you but you should still keep them close.

Sunday, I went to church, still searching for inspiration. Maybe, I would hear a still small voice, but confession time; I was more interested in looking for my friends who I haven’t since in a long while from Swedru and even Winneba.

Why was I more interested in that? I couldn’t tell.

After church, we went over to a friend’s house to pound fufu and eat. Talking, laughing, serious talks and feeling comfortable.

I got home after 4pm, and started planning my week, most especially the following day.

It was later at night that inspiration came back and inspired me of friendship.

Friendship. Why that?

I still can’t tell.

Inspiration took a walk and brought me something that was close to me. I needed not to go far to search for inspiration. Inspiration was in my social life, in my neighbourhood.

Inspiration took a walk, not a journey. Inspiration did not run away from me. It just went on a break by walking, but I went searching for it by running. It was just a stone throw.

Inspiration is just in front of you. You don’t need to go far.

Wake Up With Me in Winneba: Returned

Hello world!

I am back to the beach side…for a long time……again.

So, since I left the small town in May, I’m back. (Except for a few times when I came over for events)

There are so many things to do this semester; both academically and socially…..and work. Well, we are back to continue to struggle.

Just kidding. We are back to continue with our work.

God bless us.

The Millennial Young Adult Moments

Hey world!

One raining day, I was bored, so I began to look at my old photos. Well, they weren’t really old photos. Just the ones I began to take after secondary school.

How time flies!

I completed secondary school in 2012. The photos were mostly from 2013, especially when I moved to a new town all by myself. Well, it has not been easy as I thought it would be. I thought you would move in, make new friends, find your church, live life comfortably and that was it.

Well, it is not not not not not like that. How we wish, it was like that.

As I was looking through the pictures, I smiled. Some made me shed a tear, some made me laugh out loud, some made me to ask, when this picture was taken?

Some pictures made to feel grateful. Some made me to pray and say, Take me back to that moment and many other emotional stages I went through by just looking at pictures.

After going through all the pictures (or at least, half of them), I was thinking about life. You know, we belong to a generation where we are always holding phone and learning from the internet. We do not sleep early. We make mistakes. We laugh while there is no one around us (Hint: We just read a funny joke). We are from a generation where there is too much pollution and fake foods. Most of my friends and I are millennial young adults who aren’t married yet, so we are supposed to enjoy this millennial lifestyle as young adults, or else, before you realize, we are 60.

I always believe in capturing moments, I believe in going to the beach and running away from the waves that kiss the beach sand. I believe in having fun, so that we tell our children stories of our lives, including the being naughty aspects, so that they would know that, they are not alone and we were not perfect when we were their age.

Have fun being a young adult, who is being exposed to the wicked part of life and write your stories. 

Don’t worry, there are good times too.

Life Lately

Hi! I went missing in action (M.I.A) a little bit. But I am back and will hang around for a long time.

Yes! A very looong time.

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It’s time for me to catch up with my favourite blogs, novels waiting for me in a suburb of the city and so many other things I want to tell you about.

UEW NUGS Excellence Awards.

If you didn’t know, yours truly won the excellence Awards for Best Student Writer. My head wants to explode because I am writing this. I am one step moving there. Being a writer, and inspiring others to do the same.

Aboakyer 2016 + Exams

Ugh… I don’t feel like talking about this, because I did not get the time to celebrate, but I did a little bit of it. Exams started before the festival, so there was no desire and no time to observe, but anyway, there is always next year.

Moving On Up

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I can’t believe I am moving to the city and will come back to my adventurous town after the New Year. It looks very far far away, and I’ll miss the people who make me desire for an adventure. I’ll miss the people who annoy me, make me laugh, give me a shoulder to rely on. I’ll miss the mood of the town. We finish writing our papers and doing presentations last Friday, and we wanted to take a group picture of group selfie with our friends and mates, but it rained and everyone scattered and were running in the rain. Hopefully, no one slipped, hehehe xx. We have already started missing everyone, and the life.

Blogging Awards

Coming Friday is the Ghana Blogging and Social Media Awards, and I am now freaking out. I haven’t picked my dress yet, and haven’t decided what I will be doing and all, but I am excited to be attending. I hope to make new friends, and drink like an executive, with my legs crossed, and with me, swirling my drink in my glass. 

What have you been up to?

Wake Up With Me In Winneba: My Sunday Chapter

My Sunday at its best: Church, beverages, waffles, religious magazines, sea breeze, religious/inspirational music.

The world looks different on Sundays, especially in the society in which I come from. We usually honour the day by attending Church.

Sundays are quiet time alone for me, especially, after Church.

My Sunday routine is actually not any unique one biaa. (I’ve started talking like I am speaking to my friends, lolz xx). I wake up in the morning, put on some good religious music (most of the time, it is either the good local Gospel songs or The Mormon Tabernacle Choir), or watch some inspirational videos from the Mormon Channel or any other inspirational video. I usually get my Sunday clothes ironed and shoes picked the day before. After dressing up, I go to Church.

After church, it’s time for pictures taking with friends and a little bit of chatting here and there. Anyway, it is all good.

I come back home, and have some quiet time alone. I either read more inspiring messages, do some scripture studies, have some beautiful music playing in the background with snacks or just take a nap. Actually, it doesn’t even end there. I might go in for some sea breeze with some friends.

But for me, Sunday is the Sabbath Day. A day of rest, a day for family, a day for reflection and a day for gratitude.

How are your Sundays spent? 

Wake Up With Me In Winneba: The Accra-Winneba Journey

You guys really don't know, but the Accra -Winneba journey with the Metro Mass Transit has two moods. Sometimes, it is is peaceful, smooth and quiet. Some days too, it is rowdy and tiring and full of headache.

Arrhh.

So, let's start the journey from where you get to the Winneba Station at Kaneshie.

We join the queue to buy ticket. When the ticket is given to you, you enter the bus. If you've got any luggage, you buy ticket for the luggage. Vendors at the station sell their product ranging from snacks, to cooked food to clothes to perfumes.

The bus takes off when it becomes full. I put on my earpiece to listen to my "Soundtracks of My Life" playlist. During the rowdy days, the medicine sellers stand on the bus, telling lies (or maybe truth), making noise, saying the same stories over and over again. I have no say in this. They are doing their business. They make noise, noise, noise, and because I belong to the class of people who can't afford the other kind of transport (because I'm a student on a tight budget), I can't complain, and people seemed to be interested in what they are saying. Thanks to my music playlist, I do not have to listen to them.

When the bus reaches the toll booth, the driver has to purchase a ticket to enter into the Central Region.

Welcome.

Slowly, we reach Kasoa, the last place to do your fast buying of snacks. Street hawkers are around, so this is your last chance of buying something to eat before we get to Winneba. We use about an hour or less to reach the town from the toll booth, so in case you missed the snacks, you have just an hour or less more.
Passengers start getting off at Potsin or the Suaye School, also known as the Apostle Safo Junction.

Anytime, I see the Gloriaka Hotel and Restaurant sign board, I know I have about 10-15 minutes to the Winneba Roundabout / Winneba Junction. By that time, all the medicine sellers have gotten off. Mostly, the evangelists go with us to the station, but by the Winneba Junction time, they are done with the preaching.
So we start the major bus stop alighting.

After Run Off Bar and Restaurant or Olympic Arena (te place with the swimming pool), we get to The Stage.

Then people start to get off

Low Cost Junction (or Trauma and Specialist Hospital junction/Community Health Nurse Training School junction)

North Campus

Winnesec Junction /school junction (Winneba Secondary School)

Kojo Beedu (A town in Winneba)

Town Hall

Filling station (Popularly known as Shell)

We get to the traffic lights, that works only when the academic year starts. After a month, it stops working, then comes back to life during the festival (Aboakyir)

White House (Seriously. Just because it is painted white)

Then Taxi Rank junction. This is where most people get off. After, move straight to the station.

That is the Accra to Winneba journey.

Maybe, I will write about the Winneba to Accra journey. That one too is another story.

Safe journey, yeah.



Wake Up With Me In Winneba: Instagram Loves For Students

Hi there! I hope you are feeling fantastic. It's another Friday and we're glad to make it through the week peacefully. I'm always glad Fridays are around to assure me of a time to do what I want to do. I mean, Fridays rule. It's Fri-Yay!

Today, we're live from my small adopted hometown, Winneba. Am I qualified to be a Winnebarian? Well, I say Yes!

If you are a student and you are coming to any tertiary school in Winneba, you are welcome. Be sure to come and brighten the corner where you are.

Want to go online for Winneba, school, social life inspiration? Are you a crazy instagrammer like me? (Wait! I'm not that crazy oo). Don't look any farther. Today, I'm showing you Instagram accounts you can follow while you are a student in Winneba.

Thanks Festus! For helping me compile these!

1. December's Very Own   @yaww.views

This guy pretends as if he has no talent. He Says What's Real. A UEW student, South Campus, tall for nothing (oops!) and has a fabulous guy-guy instagram account.

2. Emmanuel Ekow Quaye   @manuelquaye

Winneba -based, host of a show at the campus' radio station. Follow for school and social life. Plus, he has an invisible moustache, lol.

3. Papy Yaw    @papy_yaw_kwality

He says he's in love with himself. So follow for inspiration on how to love yourself. Our Carrie Bradshaw said "Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first", so he's right.

4. Akosua Ernie  @akosua.ernie

Normal, simple and curious student. You curious? Follow her.

5. Jeremy Dela Olympio @nahna_yaw

He's an art student and an actor! A student at Central Campus and a blogger too. Love theater? Follow fast!

6. Duane Adedamola   @cluswayne

I stalk him. (Don't tell him oo). I think he loves the beach as much as I do!

7. Phyphy    @kofypanford

Another "Be True To Your School" student. He's true to his school and the fun thing is, he follows back! Follow him for a "Be True To Your School" inspiration.

8. Nana Serwah    @_itz_minglez

She's beautiful. So what? Sooo, follow her! Ambassador for brown skin. If you love your brown skin, follow her! I'm serious!

9. Mr. 912    @blacc_profile

His bio amazes me. "I was the black sheep, but I turned a goat?" Huh? I think I will interpret as G.O.A.T=Greatest Of All Time. What else?

10. Marietta DeGrant   @marienoelgrant

Oh pu-leaze. I need to add myself, lol. I have the right. I post about school life, literary life, beeeaaaccchh life (oh yeah) and Winneba life. Not convinced? I'm a blogger too!

Ok! Hit follow! Lol

Have an Insta-Sweet life!