The animal fair

Day 12, no water. I was in class 4 B most all of the day. Mondays are a bit slow at school. I gave the class a motto today. I told them that class 4 B will be the Best. This will serve as our motto for the rest of the term. I am trying to use it as a force of motivation. Everyone wants to be the best so we are going to have to work hard and prove to the other classes that we are the best. We will see how it works.

We are making good progress on the school project. Every day I pass by and see the work that we have done that day. I am going to see to it that this building gets finished. We are very close now. I am trying to brainstorm ideas for raising money. Charles and I are going to talk to some of the locals that make gifts such as baskets, funature, masks, drums, etc to see if they would be willing to sell their items to me at nearly cost and then allow me to sell them and move all the profit to the school project. Because just about everyone in the community does not have the means to donate money towards the project I thought this would be a good way that they could still make a contribution. I was also thinking that maybe we could sell class room naming rights. For example is someone donated X amount they would be able to name a classroom after themselves or someone else. I think that having a dinner when I return would be a good way to raise money as well.

I love the fresh fruit! One of the best things about Ghana is all of the fresh tropical fruit. The pineapple is my favorite but they are all very tasty and very cheap!

Like I said, Mondays are mostly non-eventful. This was almost the case today. Just a short while before I was to hit the sack I got a phone call from my mom. She called to inform me that I was now twice the uncle that I was before! Jennie had delivered little baby PK (Parker Kenneth).

Today marks two weeks in Ghana. It seems like I just got off the plane. So far it has gone very fast. I think this is because I don't really have any time to even sit down let alone think about how long I have been here.

I am finding that there is not much dietary variety here. Just about every dinner contains some form of rice or cassava with an oily soup. Every day at school I have rice with a little bit of some kind of meat/tomato sauce. I am not trying to complain, I am content, I will just really enjoy the variety when I have it again. Right now, I am just happy I have food to eat.

Today I taught the kindergarten classes a song. Allelu allelu allelu alleluia, praising the lord. We don't sing it as "praising the lord" back home but I found that this was much easier for them to understand and pronounce. They liked the aspect where the boys and girls stand at different parts of the song. We are going to sing it again on Wednesday morning for worship hour. I also began to teach them a rhyme that I learned from my fraternity, Delta Psi Delta, it is called "The animal fair".

The other day I thought I might have malaria. At least the thought went through my mind… I wasn't terribly worried, if I thought it was really serious I would have seen a doctor. The day that I was not feeling good at all, Saturday. I had a headache, my stomach hurt and I felt like I had a bit of a fever and those are the symptoms that one of the teachers at school told me she had when she had malaria. But I am fine, so don't worry.