THE DIARY GAME : 1st August, 2020 : A LONG DAY OF FUFILLING MY DEVOUT OBLIGATIONS

Hello everyone! Today marks the beginning of the season 2 of the diary game which I have been anticipating for a while now. I think it is a great way of learning about different cultures around the world as we read through various posts form culturally diverse steemians. I particularly fancy the assimilation of good cultural values and habits that are in line with my ethics. I would therefore like to thank the @steemitblog and @steemcurator01 for this spectacular game. Let me now take you through what my day entailed.

It is Saturday here in Ghana and the weather was at a cool 24 degree Celsius in the morning. I woke up brighten early at around 4:50 a.m. as usual. This is really important to me as we Muslims say our obligatory dawn prayer at 5 a.m. daily. This is to thank the Supreme Being for blessing us with another day and to gear us towards a glorious day. With that said and done, the day officially began for me.

I head went out for my daily jogging routine. I stay at Buoho, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Therefore, I started this exercise from the main gate of our house to Afrancho, the next town. I covered about 2 miles, to and from Afrancho. This has become quite an easy feat for me as I do so almost regularly. And I strongly believe anyone could do same with practise as well. I do believe in keeping a healthy body as well as a healthy mind which is why I constantly push myself to go for it. This run lasted for about 30 minutes and I returned home afterwards.

As you may or may not know, today marks an important event in the calendar of Muslims around the world. This is the festival of not just sacrifice but love and humanity by Muslims all over the world. I am talking about the Eid-ul-Adha festival. It is to commemorate the lamb sacrifice Abraham made in place of his son Ishmael. Hence, it is also the festival of sacrifice. We therefore offer similar sacrifice in the form of either goat, sheep, cattle or camel. My family has been slaughtering a cow every year so this year was no different. I then helped my dad to divide the meat into 3 portions; one for the house, one for family/friends and the third portion for the less privileged. We then wraped the meat in plastic bags and I labelled them for easy identification.

It was then time for distribution of the meat. I packed the meat in the car and we went out for distribution. It was indeed a very long ride as our car incurred a flat tyre along the way. Lucky enough, there was a vulganizer shop nearby where they pump and fix car tyres and got ours sorted out.

This vulganizer did a very fine job in fixing the tyres and exchanged good conversations with us. We even learnt that he's also a part time mechanic as well as a farmer. We were all set as we could now pursue our main agenda. We then went to the various places to distribute the meat.

I was really exhausted by the time we got back home and took a quick shower to freshen up. I then took a nap to regain my strength. Although this journey was tiring, I am very optimistic that our efforts will be rewarded by the Almighty God.

My Recruitment into @Steemghana-team

Later in the day, I saw a WhatsApp message from our country president @oppongk, informing me about an available spot in @Steemghana-team. He said that @agodaniel32, a team representative is on a tight schedule at work and could not actively participate. This is what transpired. It is with great pleasure that I annouce to the @steemitblog, @steemingcurators, @steemcurator01 and all steemians that I am now one of the 5 representatives for @Steemghana-team.

This concludes my dairy post for today. Thank you for reading.

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