This week has been really nice! I went to volunteer on Tuesday at the school and it was great! We worked on conditional sentences, which got pretty tricky when it came to the past perfect tense and the past perfect conditional and all those. I also gave them a spelling quiz and that helped me realize how wide the range of ability is in the class. Some people got all or almost all of the words correct while others missed even the simple ones like "speed". I was going to go back on Friday, but it was a public holiday so there were no classes. The holiday was the first president's birthday! If he were still alive, Kwame Nkrumah would have turned 102 years old this weekend! It's crazy to think how young Ghana is as a country!
This week I got to Skype one of my very best friends, Eliza! She is studying in Chile this semester, which is surprisingly only a 3 hour time difference from me! She seems to be really enjoying Chile and it's really fun to compare our experiences abroad! I'm really really glad I got to talk to her! I also Skyped Marcia this week, who is in Denmark. Again, super different experiences between the 3 of us! It's so interesting!
I got my first package from home this week!! Marty sent me a much needed chocolate supply to refill my stash! I got some Take 5 bars, Oreos, and Hershey's nuggets!! I was so excited!! It only took a week to get here, too, which is pretty impressive!! I am sooo happy to have some sweets from home! Ghanaians don't eat dessert, so I have definitely been missing it!
I'm starting to make Ghanaian girl friends!! This week I hung out with two different girls. Here, students just go "visit" each other when they become friends. Basically you go to the other person's room and just sit and talk. I was a little nervous since that is the first time I'm talking to them outside of class, but I had a really good time both times! One girl cooked rice and stew for me and it was delicious!! I thought that was very sweet of her, too! And I got to meet their roommates, both of whom were very nice! I'm so glad to finally be making closer Ghanaian friends from classes! They said next time they'll come visit me in my room!
On Thursday I went to a play! It was called Aku Sika and it was about a king who wants to marry a girl with a physical deformity. The message that the pamphlet said and the one I got from the play were a little different, but it was still a good time. It's interesting because Ghanaians don't like to be serious about things, even plays. So for example when the main character is contemplating suicide the audience was laughing hysterically and saying "byeeee"! It was so different from what I'm used to!! I'm learning so many cultural things even when I wasn't expecting it!
Last thing from this week: last night I went to a club for the first time here! It was SO fun!!! I went with just 3 3 other Americans and one Ghanaian who drove us. The place we went to is a big hang out for expats, so they played a lot of American music. Actually the music selection was very interesting! When we first walked in they were playing Nelly!!! I was pretty excited! They also played Barbie Girl? It was funny! But it was really really fun! People here go out later than at home, so the place didn't really fill up until after 1am! We left around 2:30 and by then people were starting to get warmed up!! It was very fun though and I'm glad I went!!
I don't really have pictures of anything this week, but if anything new does come up I'll be sure to post it :) Happy Sunday everyone!!
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