Love Stations

All this while I used to be nonetheless lying in mattress and wondering why such a change within the standard radio program. The radio created what I have to describe as a sweet and loving ambiance; I regarded on the calendar hanging on my wall and noticed that the date was 14th February. There was a coronary heart on the calendar marking that day, Valentine's Day. The host on the radio that pretty morning was not the similar old masculine baritone voice, a effectively-recognized voice that all the time quizzes people on political issues, however as a substitute was a easy, sweet, romantic and alluring voice of a lady. She introduced, "in the current day is a day of love'', and he or she went on to say other lovely things to remind her listeners of Valentine's Day. She interlaced her talk with candy, cool music. A number of the calls were loving statements like "I can not look back or ahead to something higher than you, my darling'', or "You mean every little thing to me, my candy coronary heart". Almost all the callers mentioned their full identify and the name of their loved ones to point out how deeply they meant what they were saying. The host concurrently drew the viewer’s attention to all the continued activities round town – particularly those celebrations that were planned for that night to mark the day for lovers. Virtually all of the individuals I met on my approach to the station had lovely smiles on their faces, particularly all of the younger faces. The women seemed good in their dresses, largely in purple and white colors. The young males did not go away the day to the ladies only; they also seemed neatly dressed with their hair cut neatly. The day appeared very promising for cab drivers; they were ready to money in on all of the lovers who would hire their services. The cabs regarded extraordinarily clear with red coronary heart formed balloons (1 or 2) hung to the vehicles' door handles. The sounds coming out of the stereos in all the cabs that faithful morning were clean, sweet and cool. I bought in one of many cabs and, as we drove into the town, I had a stunning chat with the cab driver. He spoke of his joy and expectation for the day. As we drove, nearly all the billboards alongside the highways carried some message for the day, and road light poles on the highways had crimson banners and purple heart formed balloons on them. As it's possible you'll surmise, the individuals of Ghana love Valentine's Day, a day of affection and in addition romance. Enterprise was brisk, all the retailers had been jammed with patrons, and essentially the most jammed outlets have been these dealing in girls and gents clothing, wine shops, reward shops, flowers and card shops. The messages on the playing cards all carried one central message: love. Just about all of the shops had been packed with lovers purchasing for the event, and essentially the most fascinating sight was that simply about all of the gadgets in the retailers had been pink, and the shop attendees have been additionally dressed in red. It regarded like all of the red colors on the earth had been imported for a day to the capital city, Accra. All the patrons had been smiling as they went about their activities. An environment of happiness and love crammed your complete procuring center. All the women and gentlemen were holding gift packs to indicate their preparedness for the occasion. As I walked round, I observed that town's usual combined varieties of music – reggae, hip-hop, highlife, R&B, francophone music, and all the opposite songs you can think of being performed in a cosmopolitan metropolis – had given in for a short time to mushy, romantic music. Except for the music, a variety of the radio stations have been also discussing subjects centered on Saint Valentine's Day.