i finally got internet!

okay so firstly i should apologise for not posting anything on here for the last 3 weeks! but in my defense the internet here is ridiculous. it takes about 45 mins to load up a page :S but im at a hotel this weekend and the internet here is really good so i will try to fill you in as fast as i can :)

so i got through the security gate at heathrow and realised i have never been in an airport completely by myself before which was a bit scary but i managed to navigate my wway to the boarding gate and found a few of the other volunteers and finally got to meet everyone properly.. there are 17 off us in total, 11 girls, 6 boys.

we arrived in acccra after a 7 hr plane journey and as soon as i got out the door someone had already grabbed my bbag to "help" me get it on the bus and then demanded money from me, which i didnt have so i ended up giving him my sudoku book :(

we stayed at our reps henry's house for the first week and spent most of the week on a teaching course at valley view university, which was extremely long and boring bbut it is ccool to say i have been to uni in ghana :)

henry's wife emily cooked us lunch and dinner everyday ffor a week for 17 of us and the food was pretty goo. LOTTS of rice lol but we get some pretty good fruit its all really fresh.

the ride to takoradi where myy placement is took about 5 hours and we dropped people off along thee way. my placcememnt is pretty good, its opposite the school so i dont have to walk far at all in the mornings, and our host mum makes us chicken and chips for dinner occasionally which i always look forward too :) the watter works about 20% of the time so there is a lot of showering from a bucket which really is no where near as bad as i thought it would be, its just annoying when u judge how muchc water u need wrong and dontt have enough to get the shammpoo out of your hair lol

the school is insane, im not sure if they actually have proper lessons? but the kids are really cute, the nursery children all call us "obruni" which means white person and one girl actually cries when she sees sus cos she cant unerstand our skin colour at all haha it is strange being a minority lol

me and brittany decided to wash our clothes the otther day and this woman showed us how to do it properly and warned us our fingers would be sore, shee didnt say that they would be friction bburnt and bleeding! mine wernt too bad but brittanys looked really painful, really appreciating washing machines right now!

this weekend i am stayying at a hotel on busa beach which has air conditioning which is very exciting :) we met some guys from the navy who spend money ridiculously, and they decided to buy a roomm for the night jsut so they cud use the jet skiis even tho they have to be bback on the ship at midnight, but it worked out well for me and 2 other girls bebcause it ment we got a ffree room for the night :)

i hope that kind of sums up the last 3 weeks a little bit, i will try to find a bettter internet cafe but i cant promise anything! hope everyone is england is well :) xxxxxx