Hurray - I Survived Three Days With Dinah!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008
by George Appiah

Just for everyone’s information, Dinah — yes, the same Dinah who was, but is no more — was here with me early in the week, for three days. No, nothing fancy going on here: she was simply here to fulfill a long promised (and always postponed) visit.

She got here Tuesday evening. With so much water gone under the bridge already, there was really not much to talk about, except reminiscing over what could have been. So she slept like a she-bull, while I sat up most of the night, all night actually, trying to write on paper what I felt in my heart.

Wednesday — the only full day she spent here — was hectic, to say the least, at least for me. We hit the streets, mostly on foot, visiting many important places in Accra. What were the highlights of the day? Well, depends on which one of us you ask.

For me, it was great tracing back memories of my early days in Accra — through the streets of Osu, all those places I used to hang out way back then (I’m talking of traditional Osu neighbourhoods like Anumansa, Kinkawe, Ako-Adgei, etc, NOT just Oxford Street).

But perhaps the real highlight of our day out was the visit to the Accra Shopping Mall, where we did a LOT of window shopping (yes, we managed to resist the temptation to buy anything at all). Actually I simply followed along, playing the “nice boy” role, while being whirled around from shop to shop, and enduring one feminine lecture after another — on topics from bra types to panty types and everything else in-between.

Anyway, I survived the day. Heck, I actually enjoyed it, and would have enjoyed it even more if I wasn’t walking with the guilt of carrying a camera with a dead battery

Though Dinah’s visit was such a brief one, this was a real break I seriously needed. This was my first non-working day out in a very long time! Her visit also (sort of) re-set the clock for me: the void she left behind (and I’m not just talking about her visit) has got me thinking about the things that really matter to me.

Here are two more photos: the first taken way back then, when we were everything to each other; and the latter taken during our day out (that was the ONLY shot the camera could take before the battery died completely). Do these two photos (and the one above, which was also taken during her trip here) tell you anything at all?