Wednesday: We gave our gifts to Eddie and Stephen and watched the Ghana game. I did write a little about that already.
THURSDAY:
Spencer and Joey got up at 5:30am to go to Ben's field. They got to administer their 2nd loan to him!!! Ben will be planting sugar cane in his field. He already has a woman who processes the sugar cane who has agreed with Ben to come in, harvest it and take it away. So all Ben has to do is ready his field, plant the sugar cane and take care of until it's ready and then... He make a killing! At least that's what we've been told. I think it's pretty cool!
FRIDAY:
Emily and I got to go to the guys classes that night where one of the district presidency members came and talked about the legalities of starting a business here in this part of Ghana
And Emily and I remembered again why we love Abomosu so much.
Aren't these kids so dang cute!?
Another fun thing about how they carry their kids on their back is that when the kids get older and you give them piggy-back rides, they don't choke you with their vice grip around the neck! They hold onto you under your armpits and wrap their hands around your shoulder. It's genius! We are going to teach our children to hold onto us like this. You can kind of see how it works here and I promise, it's much more effective!
SATURDAY:
Ghana vs. USA
Holy crazy game!!! It was so much fun being in the room with all the Ghanaians in the house and having a fun little rivalry here. When Ghana scored their first goal in the first 5 minutes of the game it was a little hard not to be excited for them because everyone else was. Gloria got up and ran around the room giving everyone high fives, we had a good laugh about it.
Then Ghana fouled the US in the penalty box, so we had a penalty kick and made it!!! I loved getting excited for our country and the Abus and Gloria were very civil about us being tied up.
Then came overtime... Of course, Ghana scored first. All of us Americans really did want the US to score and win, but we started losing hope as overtime kept going and going and nothing was going in. Then one of the missionaries (who actually had permission to watch the game at a member's house because it wasn't safe for them in the streets to proselyte during the game) just kept saying, "There's no way the US can score. God wouldn't do that to Africa! Ghana HAS to win, there's no other option!" He's obviously a native Ghanaian himself (from Kumasi).
So when overtime ended and the US hadn't scored again we got to enjoy the celebrations of the wonderful people here. I guess the good thing about the game is that we got to be happy for someone and enjoy their happiness also.
Here are some pictures from the game!
The Abus bought everyone Fanta to celebrate the game and we popped popcorn and had a great time together!
This is a picture of everyone in the room watching the game as the final minutes of overtime were playing. There was quite a it of tension as the US kept threatening to score, but alas it never happened (much to the Ghanaians enjoyment) The American elder was telling us that if someone mentions the game and how Ghana beat the US before they started teaching a lesson that he was going to refuse to teach and make the Ghanaian elder do it all. (Good luck!)
World Cup Theme Song - plays on basically EVERY TV commercial we see here. I wish I could find the actual Coca Cola commercials that we see here, but they're just not available :( Enjoy the song though! It's kinda fun and will always remind us of our time here in Ghana.
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Our friend Lindsie in Accra, who is also an intern for SEED has done a very good job of explaining the whole world cup and Ghana stuff with football (soccer). If you'd like to, you should check it out.
SUNDAY: (Today) We love Sundays! Church was wonderful as usual! Emily and I were able to set up with the primary president to run the singing time starting next week. Most of the people here don't know many of the primary songs and they don't know how to play the piano so it's hard for them to learn them, let alone teach the kids the songs. So we're really excited to pull out the keyboard next week and teach everyone some new songs. Hopefully by the time we leave we will have taught them enough to keep busy until someone else is able to teach them more.
A turn of events from church, we watched some goats get castrated. Gross! Although it wasn't the bloody mess we'd envisioned from listening to the poor kid goats screaming. (Spencer commented that it really sounded like an infant crying, before we even knew what was happening) They basically just catch the goats and place tight rubber bands around them until about two weeks later when they fall off. So much less gruesome and I was so grateful for that!
Here's the action:
Stephen uses those pliers to stretch the rubber band big enough.
Then when Elder and Sister Terry came over later on this evening we talked to them about making snicker doodles and they quickly invited us over. Sister Terry was telling us that she's been craving them so bad lately but was unable to find any cream of tarter at ShopRite when she was in Accra earlier this week. Luckily we had found some on Monday and were able to go satiate her craving and ours. They actually turned out really well too! Sometimes it's hard to know if things are going to turn out here, but luckily they did! Everyone love them! Even Sister Abu ate 3 of them and that's not really normal for the sweets we make. Usually they are too sweet for the Ghanaians to enjoy, but so far our cookies (both the snicker doodles and the chocolate chip cookies) have been pretty big hits around here.
Sister Terry with Spencer and Joey enjoying the cookies fresh from the oven.
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