asomdwee

In the past week or so, we went to the Cape Coast Slave Castle and had a tour. We were able to go inside the slave dungeons on our tour and I was suprised at how horribly the slaves were treated. The dungeons were very dark with a tiny bit on sunlight from a window. The next day, we went to Elmina Slave Castle to eat lunch. We went around the fishing village which was so cool. The boats and nets we saw the fishermen use are so simple. After Cape Coast, we stayed at the Green Turtle Lodge on the beach. It was beautiful! We visited a few schools and donated lots of school supplies. The children were very excited about our donation. We also went on two canoe trips, one just down a little river to see the mangroves and the other one was to the stilt village, which was pretty cool. Next, we went to Swedro to have our homestays. Lucy and I stayed together with a very nice family. They were so kind and generous. Some of the meals we had include red red, rice pudding, pancakes, fruit, rice, and eggs. The community service we did at the school was hard but fun. Most of the days, we carried containers of sand to the site to make cement. We also mixed sand to make cement. One of the days during the week we were in Swedro, we went to an orphanage to help out. We did lots of laundry and cleaned up. Later, we returned to the same orphanage to drop off lots of things, such as food and baby supplies. The kids were sooo excited when they got soccer jerseys and were cheering for about 5 minutes straight! Everyone was so happy and felt good after this visit. Now, we are in Kumasi and we just got back from an AMAZING soccer game. It was Kumasi versus a Libyan team and Kumasi won 3-1. It was so exciting and the stadium was full of enthusiastic fans. Tomorrow we leave for Mole!

Lindsay Taylor

Hello! After our very long plane ride, we walked off the plane to a hot breeze. Even though it is hot and humid, I expected it to be much hotter.

We had our first real African food today for lunch. We had a buffet at a restaurant and the food was so different! There was lamb and pepper soup, fried and boiled plantains, spicy chicken, fish, and cold mangoes. I really liked the fish and fried plantains.

We have gone to some interesting museums about W.E.B. DuBois and the history of Ghana. The bus rides were so cool! There were people all on the streets with food, dogs and other items on their heads to sell. We bought some doughnuts from the bus that have been my favorite African food so far! Luckily, I haven’t been sick yet. I can’t wait until we get to go to the beach Sunday!

Asomdwe, Lindsay

I am so excited for this trip to Ghana! I have been looking forward to it for such a long time and I can’t believe that it is almost time to leave! I hope to learn a lot about the culture of Ghana and about the people who live there. I am very excited about the home stays and being able to experience first hand how Ghanaians live their everyday lives.

I feel that our group did an amazing job fund-raising! We spent lots of time planning activities at lunch meetings and we all worked well together. We had a concert, movie night, bake sale, car wash, and other events throughout the school year. We raised money to buy food and other things for different non-government organizations we are going to visit in Ghana.