Wednesday

Our schedule has changed this week because we are not teaching at the school this week. The kids are taking exams all day so we wouldnt have any purpose. So we have had our class Mon Tues and Wed morning this week. On Monday after class we went to nearby town called Jamestown. It was pretty much the ghetto. If Accra can even get any more ghetto. It was a more run down part of town where they have had a major increase in the number of HIV infected people. We taught upstairs in a small hot room that is a library and it was a group of adults college age and up. They knew so much that we flew through our lessons and decided to train them to become trainers of the AIDS lessons. It was a really good day of teaching, it makes a big difference when they understand and know a lot of things already. After we taught we went to another market to shop. This one was a lot bigger and partly indoors. I bought more stuff :)
Tuesday after class we had free time all day. We wanted to go to this resort down by the beach and pay to just use their pool because we want to come back with some kind of tan!! Bu it was cloudy so we split up into groups and some people went to an orphanage but some friends and I went to the market again and bought even more! haha After shopping we went to the mall and ate at our favorite resturant Rhapsody :) I ate nachos and mashed potatoes. Like combination huh? After dinner we saw the new Harry Potter! The theater was really nice and I forgot I was in Africa while we were watching it. Someone was smoking in our theater for alittle bit during the movie. They can smoke anywhere here. In the resturant and theater and the food court at the mall. But almost nobody does because they cannot afford to buy cigarettes. Tuesday was a fun day and I guess we pampered ourselves a little bit.
Today after class we went back to the library in Jamestown to train the GA tribe group from Monday. They all got mauals with information and they did really well and I hope that they can make a difference. Right after we left and had dinner at a food court. I had fried chicken and fries. Im about tired of chicken and fries and rice :) We taught our AIDS lesson to a group of women who go to a Pentacostal church. The headmistress at the shcool we teach belongs to the church group and wanted us to teach her fellow members. It was in an unfinished concrete building with lots of bugs. But it was really an experience to teach a group of women. And hear about all the things they cannot do or dont have a say in. Some of us cried during the lesson because the women were telling us how it really was for them. Very sad. And its hard because what can I do about it? What can I tell these women to make them understand that they have worth and have a strong voice? Its very hard for me. But we took funny pictures and im really glad we taught them.
Its has been hard getting up early every single day because the days feel so long! But we get a lot done so it is good. Our air conditioner in our room finally is working again so yay for air! And we figured out how to turn on our water heater so we have hot water in the shower. Afew of the girls in my group got their hair braided. They put extensions in so it is very long and looks like a black girls hair! haha Its really cool. I dont think I could do it though. Maybe a little too extreme for me :) Im off to bed, goodnight.