There are some experiences that really make me look around and go "Wow, I'm in Africa". For the most part, everything has been relatively easy to adapt to, and even though it's been almost a month here, so many things are new and exciting every single day.
Everything is easy, until it's not. So what hasn't been easy? Getting sick. After our weekend at Cape Coast both Maddi and I spent a few days in bed sick with everything except malaria it seems. I'm pretty sure mine was food poisoning, and not bad enough to go to the hospital, but bad enough to be incredibly annoying. On the other hand, it's GNAPS week, which means theres no classes at the school so it was good timing to be sick.
This morning we figured we were well enough to go with all the kids into the centre of Sekondi. So, we piled into the schoolbus. That was an experience in itself. Basically athey just try to fit as many kids in the bus as possible, and I was sitting on a teachers lap; that's how little room there was. We arrived, and then the party began. We thought it would be the kids marching, but today was dance-party day. All 300 or so kids lined up in rows of 4 or 5, with a kid carrying the Ghanaian flag in front, and a few kids holding the school banner. We were accompanied by a band of about 6 playing the drums, trumpet, trombone, tamborine, everything. And then we basically just paraded through Sekondi, dancing. It was one of the coolest experiences, and the energy from the students and teachers was incredible. And anyone who knows me knows that it takes a lot to get me dancing. But there I was, dancing (badly, of course) through the streets in Africa.
It took up the whole morning, and I was absolutely exausted by the end of it. Exausted, with a smile on my face.
More later!!
Love, Sarah
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