Joey and I meticulously planned the day, but because the crew got started 2 1/2 hours later than planned, we had to throw our inital plan out the window and improvise.
First we needed to meet them in Kwabeng on their way through to add Dave Herrmann to the local bank account. This trip to the bank was also to help Nkansah, who will be collecting the loan payments in the absence of SEED interns, make the deposit for the August payments. Considering Dave wasn't able to get his passport photos in Accra before they came, we made pretty good time.
By the time we finished, it was lunch time. We packed 10 people in the 8-seater car and headed straight to X-men's Catering Service, which has been our golden child. The professors were a little concerned about the sanitation of the food they would be eating, but we assured them that everything would be fine, and we really wanted them to experience it.
We also got to see Pres. Twum's DJ equipment and visit Daniel's mill. Nothing new there, so we didn't take any pictures.
Next was Faustina, who had just purchased the tomatoes and onions for her small home store. She was so excited to finally get something started and have a little extra money.
Then we went to see Dompreh's pharmacy. Konrad Lee decided that he should be in this picture so that it looked like he contributed something to the trip. Everyone else liked the idea and hopped in too.
We also found out that Dompreh has already sold GHC 400 worth of the GHC 600 he spent on new medications last week from the loan money. Looks like he's going to be able to pay off his loan really soon too!
We didn't give Dompreh enough notice to come meet us at the pharmacy, and Dave was really worried about missing their flight, so we just met Dompreh on the way to our next destination.
As always, there were plenty of kids that wanted to say hi to us all. Abbie likes these pictures, so these one are for her.
Dan Holland was also thoroughly enjoying the kids.
Next we had to beeline it to Asunafo so that we could teach our last lesson there. We're going to miss that class. They have been stellar!
While I was trying to greedily drink water from a sachet, it EXPLODED in my face! Right in the middle of our lesson! Everyone was laughing so hard they had to stop and get a picture. Sorry Martin--I guess that's what you get for sitting right in front of me.
Here is our class: Richard, Martin, Frank, Douglas, Samuel, and Pres. Benjamin.
Afterward, we went to see Ben Boadu's sugarcane starters. He's been having some troubles with his farm that has delayed the planting of the starters. First, there was a lot of rain upstream from the nearby river, so the river had flooded his land. Now that the river has gone down, he can't get workers to plant for him since everyone would rather work at the mine. Hopefully we'll be able to figure something out there...
Another Abbie picture. Oooh pretty.
This is a picture of Margaret Abu's houseware shop in the market, with Sevior, who runs the shop. We never got a picture of it before, so here it is.
Last was a visit to Sampson and his wife as they made Kenkey. He hasn't purchased the corn he's going to hoard away, but we thought our professors might find the processof what it will be used for interesting. Unfortunately they wouldn't try any. Their loss I guess.
From there we just packed up and shipped out. Abbie and I went back to Accra with the professors and left Joey and Emily to hang out in Abomosu for another week. We're going to Abomosu, but we will not miss the drive to and from Accra.
We were able to spend two more wonderful days with the Dicksons before we flew out. Thank you to everyone that made our experience in Ghana so wonderful. Many people have told us that they could never do something like what we did, but they only say that because they have never done it! We have learned many valuable things. We wouldn't trade our time in Ghana for anything.
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