Week 1 Day 5
It’s actually been 2 FULL WEEKS since we made it to Ghana. My countdown at the top is how long we’ve been in Abomoso, but we spent 2 days in Accra before coming here. We were talking today about how it seems like yesterday we had been here for a week. So crazy! I was thinking that it seems a little bit like the mission. The days always seem to go a little bit slow, but the weeks FLY by! Before we know it we’ll be needing to leave this place and that’ll be the last thing we want to do!
Anyway, we’re not thinking about that right now – we still have the whole time ahead of us! Love it!
So Spencer and Joey’s business meetings are picking up! They had meetings with people almost all day today, and there are still more people who would like to meet with them that have yet to find a time to do so. The guys were telling us today that they were pretty spoiled with Esther being their first client because she was completely on top of things. She had her whole business plan already outlined and will be completely ready to start her restaurant when she is able to get the money she needs for supplies. But it seems that the rest of the people they’ve been meeting with only have ideas – not so much plans to carry it all out. Personally, I don’t really care what else happens with the money they have to loan out, I just want Esther to get what she needs so that she can start her restaurant and I can go get her awesome, cheap, delicious food whenever I want! But that’s just my opinion ;)
The classes Emily and I are teaching are going really well. The second school, Zion, we started teaching at on Monday is a little crazy though. There are 75 kids in the first classroom and over 50 in the second. I can’t believe the sheer masses of children that exist there. It’s craziness!!! We have yet to figure out how to successfully implement the WHOLE program with even some of the kids since we need a teacher/translator with us at all times – so we’ll see what happens.
We are really getting to know brother and sister Abu these days and it’s so much fun! The people here are just wonderful and we have so much to learn from them. Here’s just a couple:
If a little girl can carry a large bowl such as this on her head I SHOULD be able to learn how to carry stuff on my head right? We see little girls walking with big tubs like this full of water quite often. They have sweat dripping down their faces and everything. Spencer and I have decided we need to take videos of this and show our kids if they start to complain about the work loads we give them.
Jollof! I don’t think I’ll be able to live if I go home and don’t know how to make this.
Peanut butter soup! Never before have you tasted peanut butter and spice so deliciously mixed together! I promise it tastes much better than it looks.
Eaten with these glutenous rice balls. Delicious!
Their fried chicken is also quite wonderful. Spencer loves it!
Although we could definitely do without this one - while we're on the topic of food it would be fun to include it.
This doughy stuff is called Fufu
You rip tiny pieces of it off (or if you're Ghanaian and have been eating it every day of your life you rip off massive pieces), dip it in this soup -
And swallow whole. That's right - NO CHEWING! I couldn't do it - neither could Spencer. This soup is full of fish too and it is really hard for me to down. It was fun to try once though!
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