| Narkootikumide mittetarvitamine rangelt keelatud! | NO use of any kind of drugs in this premises strictly forbidden |
Pühapäeval tegime perega rannatiiru Kokrobitel. Seadsime, end sisse Big Millyses, kus laval parasjagu kohalik reggae band. Osad bandi liikmed käisid samal ajal külastajatelt korviga annetusi kogumas. Meilt küsiti ka kuid me ei teinud neist esiti välja – olime Big Millisesse tulnud eelkõige sööma. See on Ghanas väga tavaline – band tuleb lavale, teeb muusikat kuid ei küsi esinemistasu rannaresordi või esinemiskoha haldajalt vaid hooppis külastajatelt. Nii kogub korvi annetusi 1-2 cedi kaupa.
Kalmaarid söödud, läksime lavale lähemale. Silver tikkus samm-haaval lavale järjest lähemale ja lähemale uudistamaks, mis möll seal toimub. Lõpuks tõi üks esinejatest talle ka trummi ning Silver sai muusikutega koos kätte harjutada. Trumm põristatud jooksis ta meie juurde tagasi ning mne ajapärast asetas abikaasa koos Silverifga trummile 20cedit. Lavalt kostsid huilged ning tänuhüüded. 3-4 minutit hiljem pani grupp pillid kokku ja kadus. Seega, Ghanas ei tasu laiata ja esinejatele suuri annetusi teha – nad võivad see peale otsustada, et teie annetus on päevakassaks sobiv küll ning ei pruugi esinemist jätkata 🙂 lol. Enne lahkumist klõpsasin pildi mind juba aastaid naerutanud sildist, mis Big Millises ikka muutmata: “NO use of any kind of drugs in this premises strictly forbidden” Millelt võib välja lugeda, et narkootikumide mittetarvitamine antud valdustes on rangelt keelatud 🙂 Eks – ole rastameeste koht. Pane vähemalt kanepi suits ette kui muu ei kõlba. IRW 🙂 |
Thhis Sunday we made a beach-trip to Kokrobite. We entered Big Millys where local reggae group was performing. While they were performing some of the group members were going around with a basket collecting donations. We did not mind them as we had gone to the place to eat. Its actually quite common here that musical groups or performers come on stage but instead of charging the owners of the premises they collect donations from visitors. Later, when we had finished our lobsters we went to sit down closer to the band and my son step by step approached the stage to check out what’s happening. One of the group members brought him a drum and he could try making music with the band. After having found out whats the deal with drums he ran back to us. Few mites later my husband placed a 20cedi bill on top of the drum. Group members were cheering and thankin as normally donations are around 1-2cedis. For our surprised the song the played on the moment of receiving our donation remained their last for this day. They wrapped up and left. So, if you actually like the perfomance on the stage – you might want to wait until you are about to leave before getting generoous. As band might feel that the amount received is good enough and will stop work for that day 🙂 Before we set to go home I snapped a photo of a sign I have been laughing about for years: “NO use of any kind of drugs in this premises strictly forbidden” |