Wednesday

3 more days in Ghana! Today we had our first day of goodbyes and it was sad.
It was our last day at Grey Memorial Basic with our kids. We planned a field day for them and had different stations that a few of us were in charge of. Before we went out to the field our teacher gave Desiree and I each a necklace and a pair of earrings. From the whole class. And one of the older boys named Alfred who Desiree and I have grown close to gave each of us a bracelet that he bought. We felt bad taking it from Alfred because we knew he could have used his money for something for him or his family. But it was so sweet and the kids were so excited that we got presents. The teacher put on our necklaces for us. We tried rounding everyone up for field day but there were like 350 kids and it was pretty much chaos. We just started doing our stations and the kids ran around doing whatever they wanted. Mostly playing soccer. haha But it was fine because it was a lot of fun. They all changed into street clothes instead of their uniforms and it was fun to see them like that. But harder to tell them apart. haha It was so hot! I was in charge of relay races and I raced with them a few times and was dying. haha After about 45 minutes of unorganized gamed (lol) we were taken to the headmistress office and given our dresses. The 2 guys in my group got African shirts and Ghana bracelets and they looked awesome. The dresses they made for us in 3 days were amazing! The were all different patterns and different styles so we got to choose. They were perfect and everyones fit. We were so lucky and grateful! They had us put them on of course and then we sat and watched the kids dance and drum. One of my girls got to dance with the older girls and I felt like she was family because I was so proud of her! haha I was yelling for her and grinning from ear to ear. :) It was a really cool program. The kids thought that we were coming back tomorrow, they kept saying "you be here thursday" so it was sad to tell them that we wouldnt be back. A couple of them told us not to forget them. We got our teachers email so hopefully we can stay in touch.
After school we stayed in our dresses and looking Ghanaian we went to the Happy Kids school to teach the boy scouts and girl guides lessons about things like nutrition, self esteem, and germs. They were so smart and new pretty much what we were talking about so it went really well. One of the men there said that he was in charge of their AIDS education. He metioned that the kids should be trained like he was trained by Lynley. 5 years ago Lynley came to Ghana with another study abroad and trained this man to be a youth leader. He still had his certificate they gave him and was educating kids about AIDS since then. What a good feeling to know that just one person could make a difference and all because we were here. Just like my mom said :) Thanks mom.
After the lessons we were going to go to the Teteh Quarshie market and shop but we were in traffic for an hour. We were all asleep and starving. So we decided to come back to the hostel and take a nap before dinner haha Dinner was Cordon Bleu, pasta with white sauce, and chicken rice and fruit. We are always so hungry by dinner that we eat in like 10 minutes. haha
Right now I am about to walk down the street to the pharmacy to get some mint chocolate and we are probably going to watch a movie on someones computer and just relax! Yay