if wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak
Do you know what I wish? I wish I had a nice big perky butt like the women in Ghana do. Seriously. It is almost ridiculous how awesomely proportioned the women are here. I mean, I suppose my butt is moderately sized compared to other east Asians, and by that I mean I can actually fill out a pair of jeans. But you look at the women here and I look like a twig, a particularly shapeless twig.
It doesn't matter if the woman is fat, skinny, or medium sized. They all have big round butts that aren't lumpy, weirdly flat in some place, or saggy. They just sort of protrude out in that way Sir Mixalot raps about. Finding clothes might be harder with a butt like that but I would be so much sexier. Seriously.
In Ghana the part of the woman bellow the waist is considered highly sexual so wearing short shorts would be like going around in just a bra. That makes sense now considering the shapes of Ghanaian women's butts. You go to China and I doubt it would be offensive. There's literally nothing there...
I have to wonder if Ghanaian men would find the typically attractive American body type sexy. Even a Victoria's Secret model would probably seem shapeless and adolescent compared to their own women. Actually I think the adolescents here are curvier than most Victoria's Secret models. Which is probably why I see a lot of pictures of Beyonce and Rihanna floating around. Their bodies are more in line with what is considered sexy here.
Anyway, I was at the beach today which is how this all got started I guess. I was observing the difference in body types between the white women in their bikinis and the Ghanaian women in their dresses, shorts, and tank tops. Even at the beach they tend too dress more conservatively than the foreigners. Or in fact the body types between the male white tourists and the Ghanaian men. I really can't figure out why western society would be so obsessed with twiggy skeletal women when you could look at the endless curves and robust features of a real woman. But then again I have yet to see a white woman with the kind of sturdy round rump that is ever so common here in Ghana. I read somewhere that it's a genetic adaptation that stores more fat in the butt in times of starvation so that the woman can support pregnancy even when there's little food. Whatever the reason, we should isolate that gene and give the gift of ass to the less fortunate.
Doreen, one of the volunteers with North Western Eye Clinic came to the beach with us today. She made us banku, a traditional Ghanaian food accompanied by baked fish and chicken and an amazing tomato sauce. The banku is made with corn meal and cassava. The corn dough is fermented giving the banku a sourish sweet taste. It's interesting, sort of like the fermented rice my mom makes, but the sticky texture gets too much after a while. The same complaint is true of fufu. I don't mind the taste all that much and I love the stuff that goes with it but just that texture man. I just can't handle it. Like with fufu, you eat banku with your hands. At first western propriety dictates that you should feel awkward about eating your liquidy food with your fingers but after a few meals of it I feel like I'm old hat at it. It's actually kind of liberating. For example, your fingers are way better at separating the bones in a fish from the meat than, say, your mouth.
I totally got sunburned on my back but hopefully that'll go away within a few days.
We spent longer at Bojo beach this time and I got in some sun (too much actually), did some sketching, made progress on my November NaNoWriMo novel, and played volleyball very poorly. Mostly I stood there, attempted to get the ball, and then watched as someone else hit it. ::sigh::
It doesn't matter if the woman is fat, skinny, or medium sized. They all have big round butts that aren't lumpy, weirdly flat in some place, or saggy. They just sort of protrude out in that way Sir Mixalot raps about. Finding clothes might be harder with a butt like that but I would be so much sexier. Seriously.
In Ghana the part of the woman bellow the waist is considered highly sexual so wearing short shorts would be like going around in just a bra. That makes sense now considering the shapes of Ghanaian women's butts. You go to China and I doubt it would be offensive. There's literally nothing there...
I have to wonder if Ghanaian men would find the typically attractive American body type sexy. Even a Victoria's Secret model would probably seem shapeless and adolescent compared to their own women. Actually I think the adolescents here are curvier than most Victoria's Secret models. Which is probably why I see a lot of pictures of Beyonce and Rihanna floating around. Their bodies are more in line with what is considered sexy here.
Anyway, I was at the beach today which is how this all got started I guess. I was observing the difference in body types between the white women in their bikinis and the Ghanaian women in their dresses, shorts, and tank tops. Even at the beach they tend too dress more conservatively than the foreigners. Or in fact the body types between the male white tourists and the Ghanaian men. I really can't figure out why western society would be so obsessed with twiggy skeletal women when you could look at the endless curves and robust features of a real woman. But then again I have yet to see a white woman with the kind of sturdy round rump that is ever so common here in Ghana. I read somewhere that it's a genetic adaptation that stores more fat in the butt in times of starvation so that the woman can support pregnancy even when there's little food. Whatever the reason, we should isolate that gene and give the gift of ass to the less fortunate.
Doreen, one of the volunteers with North Western Eye Clinic came to the beach with us today. She made us banku, a traditional Ghanaian food accompanied by baked fish and chicken and an amazing tomato sauce. The banku is made with corn meal and cassava. The corn dough is fermented giving the banku a sourish sweet taste. It's interesting, sort of like the fermented rice my mom makes, but the sticky texture gets too much after a while. The same complaint is true of fufu. I don't mind the taste all that much and I love the stuff that goes with it but just that texture man. I just can't handle it. Like with fufu, you eat banku with your hands. At first western propriety dictates that you should feel awkward about eating your liquidy food with your fingers but after a few meals of it I feel like I'm old hat at it. It's actually kind of liberating. For example, your fingers are way better at separating the bones in a fish from the meat than, say, your mouth.
I totally got sunburned on my back but hopefully that'll go away within a few days.
We spent longer at Bojo beach this time and I got in some sun (too much actually), did some sketching, made progress on my November NaNoWriMo novel, and played volleyball very poorly. Mostly I stood there, attempted to get the ball, and then watched as someone else hit it. ::sigh::