akuaasabea: May 2024

May 09, 2024 No comments

Some old photos of D'Emefa

Ps: D'Emefa is my big sister. She shared this testimony on Facebook on 8th May 2017. 7-year-old testimony - Same Great God of wonders! :)

"One day in the late nighties, I got admission into Tech. Guess what? I got a yellow letter. That meant I was non-re. There were 3 batches of students waiting to enter University that year. I wanted to escape from Korku Addo -:), who was gunning to become my mate if I didn't "escape" to school that year.. I had not been to Kumasi since I had attempted to change secondary schools about 4 years previously.

I was successfully put on a bus by Papa and Mama with a letter to a distant Uncle who was supposed to accommodate me and sent off to Kumasi.

Back track to a few months before this. I had met Ros Hanson-Aryee in sixth form but we were not what you would call close friends there. We however linked up after school through letters. I went to Cape Coast for Panafest at her invitation in July or August of the same year I went to Tech. I met many of her friends who I later met at Tech.

When I went back home to Accra, we still kept in touch and so I knew she had also gained admission and she would be in the Independence Hall of KNUST. So back to going to Tech....

When I alighted at Tech Junction, I boarded a taxi and told the driver I was going to the Independence Hall (it was obvious I was a fresher, nobody says that!). I had arrived early and wanted to check out how the halls of residence looked like before I went to look for my Uncle with my letter.

Again, what are the odds that I would meet Ros Hanson-Aryee at the porters lodge when I arrive at the Independence Hall?????? People, I did!!!!

In those days, we didn't have mobile phone so there was no way I would have known she was there at the time or even that she would report to school on that day or even time.

Freshers used to come to school a week before the rest of the school and so the school was a bit empty. Although she had quite a number of friends from Cape Coast, they were mainly males and were in every other hall except Indece. We decided to stick together while I chased my Uncle down with my letter (at least for the first week where there were only freshers).

Guys, at the end of that first week, we had still not tracked my "Accomodater" down...... I was stuck with my friend Ros Hanson-Aryee and officially a "percher". We made common friends, we hang out together, we formed synergies that only God could have engineered. Our families got to know one another, we went through candid feedback sessions, we got into each others' business, we looked out for each other.....

From second year, Aba Akuamoa was at post, Ros and I went together to join her and and another student in her room and I was a percher. Although there were many horrible stories at the time of perchers, we had a swirl time so much so that we had an interesting time splitting up when I finally got accommodation in third year. In third year and final year, there were interesting combinations of the three of us in various rooms with a new floating percher Afua Afreh Mantey (tomorrow it is...)

People, I keep asking you? What are the odds, that I would meet Ros at the P-Lodge? By the way, I located my Uncle's house but never heard from him the entire time I was in school..... This week, don't be disappointed if help does not come from known quarters. God is always working a better plan out and will line up helpers along the way to execute His plan.

I was not present when the accommodation wand was waved, but God made a way. He still made my stay in Tech super comfortable and nice. Infact anybody could have easily assumed that Ros Hanson-Aryee and Aba Akuamoa were perching.....

Afua Rose, you are part of this story, stay well and at peace.

Ladies, thank you for availing yourselves for such great testimonies. If you know this story and you were part of it, call me soon.

Just remember, God is not limited by your circumstances and or thoughts.....

Indeed:

His love in time past Forbids me to think He will leave me at last in trouble to sink While each Eben-ezer I have in review Confirms His good pleasure to help me quite through."

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