Sitting in the Sun is NOT a good idea

Ok, I gotta be honest: we went to this center for older adults (seemed more like a rec center. It wasn't a nursing home; no one stayed there, people just spent the day there) and got a chance to visit their facilities. Now. . .I thought the hospital we went to was bad. . .but this was just blatantly political in all the wrong ways. I think it would be best for me to refrain from some comments considering the fact that this blog is widely read around the world with dedicated follows from the academic and news fields (yeah ok). But I will say that opinions were obvious and questions were adamently ignored. What made the whole thing worse was the fact that we were sitting outside in the hot sun after lunch listening to a lecture.

That was just wrong.

As interesting as it was, I had a hard time concentrating. One thing that I did catch (during nap intersessions) was how the old are viewed and how the young are not taking the proper responsibilities of learning old customs and traditions. The person giving the lecture was fairly young himself but placed a large amount of blame on the younger generations. But, now this is just out of curiosity, what if there are not many old people left to teach the young? Or what if the older folks are not taking the initiative to pass down certain traditions? We cound count the number of older people we met; that is not to say there are no older people in Ghana. They way they were all at home. Who knows? But the onesided nature of the talk was a little. . . .offputting. I'm still trying to understand what was going on there. . .especially with the sun beating down and lulling me to sleep. I know. . .I'm bad. . .I can't help it.