Earthquake…Psych!!!!

Sunday night there was an apparent earthquake scare, Mona and I slept through everything, haha. Anyway, at around 12:30am there was a rumor of a major earthquake that spread through the entire country of Ghana via mobile phones (everyone here has a mobile, even the ladies in our villages!). The Ghanaians were telling me stories about people in their respective villages running out of their houses to stand in the clearing. This wasn’t just isolated to one town, but multiple places. Alberta’s home village had everyone evacuate and go down to the beach. There were stories of people carrying their TVs out on their heads. Many villages were woken up to someone beating their pots to wake everyone up. As a result of all this chaos the cell phone networks malfunctioned for a day after. Unbelievable! It was such a scene that the news was talking about it all the next day. In the end, obviously there was no earthquake, not even a little one, but people didn’t end up going to bed until dawn and many were crying and praying outside, I’m just glad no one called us, I would’ve been so mad! :)