Nicola – It was brilliant to meet our buddies and have them show us around school and the kindergarten.
Megan – It was brilliant how welcoming people have been and how the group has mixed together!
Bethany – It was amazing to meet our buddies and the ceremony was brilliant, especially our dancing!
Sophie – We got the chance to do some Ghanaian dancing (embarrass ourselves) and get to know our buddies, who even walked us home. J
Vicky – Taxi drivers hoot at us as we are walking along the main road – 11 times today! Apparently, it’s because we are white.
Ellie – It was so good meeting our buddies after so long! It was also amazing to look around the school and see the dancing.
Molly – After 2 days’ travelling, it felt amazing to get stuck in and meet our buddies. Everyone’s so welcoming. Not used to the heat yet.
Alice – It’s lovely to see smiling faces everywhere we go and lovely to meet our buddies today. Can’t wait for the next few weeks!
Anna – I love it here, meeting Comfort’s little children yesterday was great and my buddy is lovely. So excited to come home with all the stories from this trip!
Elisabeth – I’ve settled down really well here although I had problems using the trolley at the airport. It’s been really fun so far and very welcoming. My buddy is also very friendly.
Dorothy Afful (Ankaful Junior High School Student) – There was a welcome ceremony which started around 9.50am. The school cultural group met the Bennett teachers and the students along the way.
Ghana flags were given to each of the students and beads were given to Louise and Emily. There was an opening prayer and welcome address from the headmistress to formally welcome our partner school.
The chairperson was in the person of Mr David Mensah the Assemblyman of the area. A cultural display was held where the UK students were invited to dance! The circuit supervisor also addressed the gathering. A closing prayer was around 11:20 to draw the curtains down.
Photographs were taken and buddies were introduced to each other. We socialised with each other. The buddies from the UK presented gifts to us. It is actually a great opportunity to have visitors like this.
The UK students are lovely. We did a little tour of the school with the buddies after which we went back to our classrooms for teaching and learning. We had lunch together with our UK buddies and after school closed at 2.20, we walked them back to their guesthouse.