probably my last post from ghana!

Hello :) i have 5 days left in ghana!!! ahhh!! so this will probably be my last blog or second last, so sorry to tell you that your lives will be very boring without my blog in it. no more laughing at my misfortunes as im sure you did :)
not a lot has happened since my last little report, went to beyin for fernsbirthday, it rained the whole time :( so didnt get much sunbathing in but the food was amazing :):) had a jacket potatoe with cheese AND bacon!!! so exciting :):):) was nice to see everyone and just have a relaxed weekend. sunday i passed out and threw up so that wasnt so nice, neither was the bumpy 2 hour ride home with a stomach ache :( fun times. looks like the tummy bug has come back to haunt me again! oh well, feeling a little better today, tried to eat some rice just now but ended up sharing it with a very pathetic looking kitten who made me feel bad by crying the whole time so i had to give him some of my food lol
anyway thats about it really :) tomorrow is canada day and the kids have the day off school for some sort of african holiday of independance so hopefully we can catch some last bits of sun. thursday is our party for the kids, we are giving out goody bags and doing a big slide show of pictures of them and smashing open pinatas :) friday i leave my placement and head for cape coast, saturday accra and sunday evening i fly home! so excited to go home now. i will miss ghana a lot and the kids the most but i am ready to go now, cant wait to see everyone and not be ill anymore! x

rain rain go away :(

not much to report really at the moment had quite a laid back few weeks the last 2 weeks, im just writing to say hi im still in ghana and also to try and beat richard in his number of blog posts :)
stayed in takoradi the last 2 weeks, teaching during the week. we had inter-house sports day which was so much fun, we dont have any space to actually run in the school so they just used the road and closed it with benches. im not sure if u are actually allowed to do that but oh well :) we did tug of war, guava and spoon race and 3 legged races and other stuff it was really cute but they take it sooooo seriously the teachers were all accusing eachother of teaching and all that fun nonsense that come with ghanaian competition :) fun fun fun!
my back wa sridiculously amazingly brown until i went and burnt it and it pelled and now my back looks like i have a horrific skin disease :( had my last day of teaching on wednesday, ill still be in the school next week but my teaching is officially done yayyy!!! definately know now that teaching is not for me but i still love the kids a lot as long as i dont have to teach them its fine.
it has rained and rained :( i know its the rainy season but still! if i wanted rain i would have stayed in england :( anyway, off to a place called beyin for ferns birthday weekend so hopefully should be good :) 10 days to go until i am home :) so excited! i will miss ghana but im really ready to come home now and eat vegetables and soup! no more carbs ever again in my entire life! love you all lots cant wait to see everyone xxxxx

i finally got sick :(

last week was pretty eventful! wednesday we took our kids to play against nazareth school in a football match, the kids played really well and drew 1-1 but i ended up in a huge row with one of the teachers at the end of the game because he told all the kids that they were crap and didnt even try which was a complete lie. so i interrupted him and told all the kids that the other boys trained everyday and we only are allowed to train once a week and we still didnt let them beat us so i was really proud of them, so the teacher then told everyone they wernt allowed food or water as punishment and i completely flipped out and started yelling at him and pretty much told the kids to ignore him because he was being ridiculous, he hasnt spoken to me since :) not really othered i care more about the children here than i do about evil teachers. Friday we went to senya beraku to see stephen and jacks placement which was beautiful, cos they get to live on the beach! we had to share 2 beds with 11 people which wasnt fun and i was exhausted by saturday morning :( saturday we all went to accra and stayed at the salvation army hostle. it was a pretty messy night as we got into a karaoke bar that was all free drinks once u paid the entry fee so i decided to get my moneys worth and sang i will survive to the whole bar :S how embarassing! so sunday morning we were all even more tired! monday at school was a bi odd because my lessons werent happening because of a school quiz so i didnt really know what to do with myself. tuesday was my worst day so far, i finally was sick! i only have 4 weeks left and i had avoided it for so long!! but i think a 24 hr bug is better than what some of the other volunteers have suffered, like malaria, dissentry and i think one girl had cholera :S so ive gotten away pretty lucky! still feeling a bit weird today but two of the kids brought me get well sooncards which cheered me up, its nice to know they like me :) hopefully will feel better by tomorrow!

This week has gone by soooo fast! we finally finished the paintings on monday excpet half of the second hopscotch because it decided to rain :(
wednesday we went to nazareth school to do some football competitions and give out jerseys to some of the older students as the big ones drowned all the kids in our school as they only go up to about 12 years old. friday was exhausting but really good fun, brittany had organised a world cup for the older classes and i got my own little team who were of course england :) it was so exciting when we scored and they kept doing weird little dances and high fiving eachother which was really cute, one kid (elijah and one of my favourites) even took a flying leap into me me so i could swing him round which scared me but luckily i wasnt knocked to the ground! we made the semi finals but brittanys canada team beat us, but they were beaten by teacher daniels brazil team in the finals even though canada clearly won, teacher daniel decided to be a bit of a asshole about the whole thing, whatever the kids still won and got prizes so they were happy :) i helped class 5 paint their papier mche animals they made last week so now they just have to paint the faces :)
saturday we got up at 6am to finally finish the hopscotch and then headed to hideout lodge to tan :) obviously it rained AGAIN dam rainy season :( so my tan is starting to fail!! but we had a very good night, i probably drank far too much but it was fun :) the ridiculous amount of mosquito bites i have received from saturday night is probably far worse than any hangover :(
mondays i dont do much teaching so did some reading today which was nice, now on my 14th book! yes i know im a geek! anyway, better go home to a vegetable-less dinner im hungry now! byee xxx