Saturday

Village

I know my eyes are closed :)

Swing on the beach

Desiree and I

The Castle from the govenors balcony

View from the top of the castle

The canopy walk and people in my group

This weekend was a blast!
Thursday we just taught the rest of our AIDS lessons and interviewed again to see how much the group had learned and they all got tested for HIV! We will get to know the results of their tests and I think it will be interesting to see how much of our group really was infected. It rained pretty much all day. This is their rainy season so it rains a lot and it is cloudy a alot.
We left early Friday morning to take our first excursion. We drove 4 hours to Cape Coast Africa to see the slave castles. We were driving along the coast and got to see all the boats and the fishermen and how they live close to the ocean. There are 2 slave castles in Ghana that we were going to tour. One of them was closed Frida and Saturday because Obama came to Ghana and he was visiting that castle on Saturday! So we wet to the other one called Elmina. It looked just like something out of a book. It had a moat and bridge and everything. The portugese built it and brought the black slaves there to keep until they were taken to America or where everthey were needed. It was really neat but it was sad to learn how they were treated.
There was a party or a festival of some kind going on right outside the castle and Lynley saw Anderson Cooper there! Our group also got asked to do an interview with a Ghanaian news team so we were on Ghana tv! Too bad nobody at home could see it because I was right in front :)
We also went to the jungle and walked on the Canopy walk there. It was crazy! It was a board maybe a foot wide that wobbled and it was from one huge tree to another above the treetops of the rainforest. It was roped from the bottom of the boards up a few feet. It moved and swung, I was so scared! I couldnt look down. It was so cool though and Im really glad I did it. It was pouring rain and I think that made it cooler because it made a fog in the trees. I was completely drenched though, I was ringing water out of my jacket. We got a lot of cool pictures.
We made a stop at a crocodile farm ad watched a croc get fed and some people got to touch its tail. But it got bent out of shape and ran away so we left. haha
That night we stayed at The Coconut Grove Beach Resort. It was amazing. We were 2 to a room an there were 2 rooms per building. It was like a little community with beach houses grouped together. Our roomwas awesome compared to our Hostel so when we walked in we acted like it was the greatest thing we had ever seen haha Even though in the US it was about like a Motel room. The pavillion where we ate was no joke 3 feet from the sand of the beach. The rest of our time there we walked on the beach and found sea shells and layed out in the clouds. haha We all got a little sun finally. The secret service was there because Obama was staying at that resort tonight! The day that we left was the day he was coming to stay. We had just been missing him all day. He came to Accra, the capital city where we stay. Then he went to the slave castles where we had been and then stayed at the same hotel we did only a night after! It would have been cool to see the president.
Since getting back to the hostel we ate dinner at another hotel down the street and some people went to a movie but I decided to stay here at the hostel. I can see a movie at home. :) Tomorrow we are free to do what we want. Church at 10am and then I dont know what. Monday we are back at the school teaching our 3rd graders! Then to the orphanage to play. One week went by pretty slow, maybe this one will go faster. :)