…and I am off for my yearly trip to Sweden. This time, I will be running behind a one year old, so no time to blog.
Stay tuned, back in September!
Fante + Swedish = Fandish
Our Swedish Ghanaian child is soon one year old. Time flies when you are having fun! She has now uttered her first word of what we call “Fandish” – that is combination of her father’s Fante, one of the Ghanian Akan dialects/languages and her mother’s Swedish, a Germanic language from north of Europe.
What was her first combo word? I am proud to say my child is polite. I believe she pronounced a mixture of the Swedish and Fante words for thank you.
“tack” (Swedish) +
“meda woase” (Fante)
= “ta’ssi” (Fandish)
Passport Photos in Ghana
In Ghana, you always need passport photos. You need them at the bank, at your workplace, to get your health insurance, for all educational applications and of course at Immigration.
Often you need two photos, or sometimes three. So when you go do passport photos at the photographer, the normal deal is no less than eight photos!
Can you believe my 11 month-old daughter already have a pile of her own photos? Anyways, I recently ran out of my own passport photos and went to do another bunch. Yep, eight little Kajsa’s (for 6GHC or 3 USD) are now in my pocket (and illustrating this post).
Oh, no wait! Already, the photos are down to seven!