Football (no not American Football, but soccer)… the game of choice for the kids, adults, and obronies (us white folk)… is being played at any given time. Us obronies join in at any possible moment showing off our pathetic football skills, knowing that the kids are taking it easy when we play with… saying that the goals they score on us don’t count, giving us a goal kick when they ‘fouled’ and passing the ball over just to give us a moment of glory in game… basically Americans need to work on their football game.

So having Ghana in the world cup is rather an exciting topic right now. And the fact that Ghana beat the US… well lets just say that Ghana is super pumped. Walking around town now the Ghanaians are proud to point out that the score was 2 to 1 Ghana… (not that I didn’t already know that)

Almost every car that I’ve seen driving around has a Ghana flag attached to it, proudly supporting their country. People in Addonkwanta have been carrying around a portable radio just to catch the games and/or huddling around the one public TV to watch... (yes one public TV)

Walking through my village listening to the people watch the games is almost just as good as watching any of the football games on TV. Throughout the town you can hear as Ghana takes over the ball, when they score, when the other team takes the ball, and if they score, if a ref made a bad call, when someone got hurt and so on. The moans, booing cheering, clapping, hooting and hollering… well it’s all pretty comical.

Ghana is the third African team to get this far in the World Cup, giving Ghana a good name and making this country super proud. If they win the next game against Uruguay then they will be the first African team to have made it that far! Go Black Stars!