Tuesday

We have had a lot more free time this week. Its how Ive been able to get online everyday.
This morning at school we didnt prepare a lesson because it was our last day of teaching and we just wanted to have fun. We are going back tomorrow but we are playing games with the entire school. So we had our kids draw Desiree and I each a picture of whatever they wanted and put their names on it so we could keep it. That was a lot of fun. We got a lot of drawings of people and fruit. haha They drew us and they drew them playing soccer. Then we got class pictures. Good ones and funny ones. And we took a picture with each of the kids. We passed out candy and balloons and gave our teacher lots of supplies for her to keep for them. Like pens and pencils and construction paper and crayons and colored pencils. Tons of supplies and she was so excited. They all say "God bless you" when we give them things and it just makes me smile because they are sincere.
Tomorrow is our last day at school so we are having a field day. We are going to play games with them and they are going to dance for us. We've also been told that all the teachers got together and are making us all outfits... we are excited to see how they turn out. haha They were going to take our measurements but we didnt go to school last week so they are just guessing.. It should be interesting. It will be funny if they make us wear them :) And they might!
After school we came back to the hostel and had a couple hours of free time before we had to have our class. Desiree and I walked down the street to make some copies of the stories our kids wrote a couple weeks ago. It was less than 5 cents a copy. The man working was very nice and was asking what we were doing in Ghana and we chatted until we were done and had paid him. His brother and another worker came in and they asked what we were doing in Ghana. I told them we were teaching at the school and also teaching HIV/AIDS prevention. To make a long story short.. the guy that had been helping us the whole time told us that there was a cure for AIDS and that the person who told us there wasnt is a liar and brainwashed us. He sounds like a looney I guess but he was serious. He said there wasnt a disease on the earth that didnt have a cure. The other 2 men in the room agreed with him. They all said that they dont worry about getting HIV and that they never will. We were trying to explain to him but he was very set in his ways. I told him before we left that I belived in God and that I would pray he doesnt get HIV because he would die from it.
I was so bothered coming home. Not because he was mean or calling us ignorant Americans but because there are probably lots of Ghanaians like him who are not afraid of getting infected with HIV. This is why AIDS in Africa is spreading like crazy. Because nobody really knows anything about it. We have been teaching it but it has been to willing people who know a little bit about it already. What about all the rest who dont care and who think they can be cured of it. I just cant help but wonder what I am doing here sometimes and what kind of difference we are really making. If most of the people of Ghana are uneducated like this man clearly was.. what can we really do? Make small differences and hope for the best for the people.
Anyway, after we had class we have free time now. We are probably going to the mall and eating there and looking around or shopping. Im excited :)