Answers to some questions

This post is in response to some of the questions that we've received here on the blog.

My motivation here in Ghana is time. I have been given two weeks to grab all the knowledge I can, straight from the source, before I have to leave. I have been given a once in a lifetime opportunity to actually experience a culture I had previously only interacted with indirectly. If I don't absorb all I can here and now, I wont get another chance for awhile, perhaps never. I want to fly home content and confident that I could not have spent my time here more wisely.

In regards to whether or not being in ghana makes a difference, I would definitively stand on the side that says it does. Back in the States, I didnt have the context and history behind the music. But here, I can learn about the meaning of the music, rather than just how to play it. Knowing that, I can begin to incorporate that history into my dancing, rather than just copying the moves an instructor gave me, I'm dancing and retelling history.