Introduced to the teaching style

Today was an early morning. I woke up at 6:30 to take my shower and prepare myself for work. I later decided that it would be better to take my shower at night before bed. I took breakfast outside in the courtyard, I think I would like to do this more often.
School was very interesting today. I was introduced to the teaching style and sat in on classes 4, 5 and 6. I even did a bit of a math lesson for class six. Tomorrow I will lead the whole lesson. The children are shy and very quiet. This makes it difficult for me to hear/understand them so I tell them to stand up and shout out the answer when I call on them. I am sure that soon they will become use to me. I worked mostly with a teacher named Moses.
Most all of the teachers carry around a stick or cane as an instrument of intimidation. I don’t think I have yet seen them use one on a student. The madam proprietor of the school told me she would get me a cane as well. I doubt it will ever see any action. I will be eating lunch at the school every day. Today they made me a special plate with extras such as fried plantains. The rest of the staff did not receive this same treatment, and while I appreciated the gesture, I let Madam know that I would prefer to be treated the same as the rest of the staff. Special treatment isn’t fair to others and it wont allow me to gain the full experience that I am looking for.
After school, Eliza AKA Kobe and I walked back to his house (he is so far timid around me. I am going to work harder at warming him up to me) where I met up with Charles. We worked on the laptop I brought him for a bit and then went to the internet café. This particular café is typical of Ghana. It is fairly slow access and the computers are used late 1990s shipped over from the US. Charles says that there is a café that is very fast that I will be able to go to every now and then. I will have to wait until these occasions to upload my pictures online because otherwise it would take way too long to post even a single picture.
As Charles and I walked back to his house we stopped in at his barber shop so that I could get my hair cut. This was a very humorous scene. The white man’s hair is much much different than that of a Ghanaian. They had never cut a white man’s hair before so it was an experience. If you are looking for style then I wouldn’t recommend coming to the Ghanaian countryside for a salon. But they managed to do a decent job and the price was right. It cost me 5,000 cedis. It is about 60-70 US cents, much cheaper than the places I was looking at in Switzerland. (39 euro)
For dinner we had fried fish, potatoes, and plantains as well as a tomato sauce. Notice everything except the tomato sauce was deep fried. I think I will have to do more walking if I am going to eat like a Ghanaian.
Tomorrow I must go to the school on my own. Charles will be out of town so he can not guide me. This means simply walking down to the road and catching a trotro.
I really want to go to the beach some time soon!
One of the teachers, and older man, is planning on teaching me the basics of how to speak the native language as well as take me to a very large national festival to explain more about Ghanaian culture to me. People here are so nice.
I will now head to bed so that I can wake up early and study for my lessons. They have guide books to follow for the lesson planes. I will be teaching three different math lessons tomorrow and maybe one on grammar. I told the staff that I was more comfortable with comprehension lessons than grammar and I will remind them of that again I am sure. Grammar has never been a good subject for me…
I am finding that I am just a bit rusty on some of the topics that I am teaching but it is coming back to be. They teach a bit differently than we do in the US but for most of the part it is very similar.
One last note: I have noticed that even after a few days I have started to pick up on some of their linguistic tendencies. It is very easy because there is nobody else to talk to that speaks the same way that I do.