one school in Ghana

Seth continues the project to build a school in Africa


Tuesday, September 20

Internet frustration

Day six, no running water. I was pleasantly awoken by my phone at 6am. It was a call from home. It was so good to talk to my parents and Caitlin. Communication is difficult here in Ghana so this was a real treat for me. I hope to get more calls as time goes on. Maybe even work out a call schedule.
We worked out a price for breakfast. There was confusion on whether I had to pay for breakfast or not and it turns out that I do. Charles came to the hotel while I was at school and negotiated a price. They originally wanted to charge me ¢40,000 but Charles worked them down to ¢20,000. This is a price that allows them to still make a little profit while I get a good deal..
I did not spend much time at school today. It rained a bit today. For maybe 30 seconds or so. It was nice. I went to the ATM today with Moses to take out money for the school project. I took out another ¢4million. This went to pay for all the bricks and cement and workers. The workers we have hired are prisoners excluding the professional masons. After returning from the ATM in the early afternoon I went to the project site. There I helped to supervise/oversee the work being done. I even grabbed some tools and laid bricks myself. I think the workers were surprised to see me join in on the laboring. I told them that I didn’t come 20,000 kilometers to sit and watch other people work on the school. Plus I enjoyed the physical labor.
I was finally able to go to the internet café again today. I was disappointed that we would not be visiting the high speed internet café so I would not be able to upload my pictures for people back home to see. The connection today was so incredibly slow. It took nearly 30 min just to open up my email account. I was so frustrated. All I wanted to do was be able to communicate with friends and family back home.

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