of my Ghanaian accent, I made many lovely friends there, including my best friend, whose child I am godmother to. On the home front, I started to adjust as well; mom bonding with me, by going with me to church and to shops, working together at home, cooking, going to parties, and visiting friends. Also, mom had lots of friends, who had children. That was how I met people like Abena who is also back in Ghana now, French Kiss DJ and Gloria, who’s now in Chicago. After Secondary School Days “Would it be okay to take two days off this week?” I asked the chef. The year was 1991, and I had completed a B-Tech, National Diploma at Southgate College, which I attended after secondary school, between 1989 and 1991. I had decided to do some travelling to the United States to be with my big sisters Lydia and Theodora and Cobi, my brother, who had moved to the States and I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. After Southgate, my friend Yvonne and I decided to go along with another friend, Jacqueline, in search of a job at Camp America. We did not have the necessary skills required to teach the kids at the camp, but the Camp Managers offered us positions as camp aides in the kitchen, which suited us perfectly. We left for the summer job in America. At the camp, Saturdays were my days off, but on one of those Saturdays, the camp kids were going out, so there was no work to be done in the kitchen. Therefore everyone kind of had two days off. Unfortunately, my chef refused to giveme an extra day off, which I thought was really unfair, 12 The Birthday Journal
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