Work hard, play hard…

Early evening picnics on midweek holidays are rare, and even whether they can generate any genuine fun, especially in an academically rigorous environment like Ashesi’s is perhaps even rarer. However, as the saying goes, there’s always a first time. For the most part of Wednesday September, 21, most students at the hostel just stayed indoors trying to either catch up or finish up on school work. And of course, most people were still hang over from the Trey Songs concert in Accra the previous night.

However, all work and no play does make Jack, or in this case, Ashesi students dull – when the music started blaring outside the lounge and the sweet aroma of cupcakes filled people’s nostrils, no one had to bring the crowd out. Before long, people were flinging Frisbees back and forth, boys were juggling boys, a couple daring people were riding bikes ‘FX’ style down the staircase while other people rocked their bodies, while singing along to old hip life tracks from way back when most of the students were in primary and junior high school. Sydney’s “Apuskeleke”, Tic Tac’s “Philomena” were called back from the dead.

Two or three hours after the music started, folks were still seen lingering around the ‘picnic’ grounds, enjoying the cool Berekuso night. For most people, the picnic offered a very great opportunity to just wind down and chill out from Ashesi’s rigorous school life.

When founder Patrick Awuah was interviewed on Metro TV’s Thank God It Is Friday show, he said one thing his students don’t know how to do is to have fun. I can bet that Ashesi students are out to prove him wrong.