Ghana, West Africa is where my parents are from. It was always weird for me to go from the deathly cold of New York around Christmas time to the warm humid weather of this land. As I stepped off the plane I took in the breath of the air that was a part of my heritage. I remember going in to the customs area and waiting to collect our luggage as it comes on the conveyer belt. So many people around whom are here with me to take part of going "Home". After we left the airport and were on our way to a place called Larteh. This was the village that my grandmother lived in. I got out of the car and stepped onto the clay dirt that wa

All I could do was bast in the amazement of this wonderful land so warm, so beautiful, and so enchanting in what my young eyes saw. One day during our stay my mother told me that she would take me to a very special place in the village. I could only think to myself, what could she be talking about? Haven't I seen everything here already? Well I was ready for whatever she would give to me. The next day as soon as the sun rose over the forest mountain to the east where my window, my mother woke me to get ready for us to leave. My young tender self could only look to my mother and ask her " Mommy, why do we have to get up so early for?" She looked at me with her caring eyes and said "Because today I am taking you to the Protectors Waterfall". I thought to myself that I never seen this place or hear of anyone speaking on it. It was never in my view through out the many places that I had been even without my mother's knowledge. As soon as I was ready we departed for this mysteriou!

Our journey was a long one in deed for my short little legs. This place was many miles from my grandmother's home. I recall asking my mother why had we not taken a car because it would be so much faster. She replied to me with her smooth voice of calm and said, "My dear, we have to arrive at a certain time because I want you see what happens when the rays of the sun mix with water. And a car doesn't go where we are going, it isn't allowed". This was true about the car because we were walking on back roads and through the forest and seemed to be winding up and down. This was definitely not terrain for a car. Some hours later we embarked on this place called the Protectors Waterfall. Now no one told me what it looked like but when I first saw it I was a little displeased. For I thought I was going to see s grand spectacle similar to Niagara Falls or so

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