All my posts may be about Africa, but I'm actually in Spain right now, as you may recall. Barcelona is big and entirely different from Dodowa, but also beautiful and full of life and energy. This morning, I toured a chocolate museum with three other girls from the hostel, one from Taiwan and two from the north of France. The entrance ticket was a chocolate bar and two of us enjoyed a hot chocolate drink at the end that was basically still-warm melted chocolate. Fantastic.
Fun fact from the chocolate museum: There's a huge tradition of giving mona (from Arabic munna, a type of gift) on Easter Monday (next Monday) in Barcelona. The mona is a cake the godfather gives to his godson every year up to his first communion at age 12. The cake is topped with one hard-boiled egg for each year of the godson's life. It seems that the tradition has evolved into families eating cake on Easter Monday. Between Mom's arrival and Valentine's Day on Saturday, tennis finals and Easter on Sunday, and Easter mona cakes on Monday, I don't know how I'll stand all the excitement. It's going to be a fabulous week.
In other news, I took a two-hour nap today. Reminded me of Ghana.
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