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Day 7
This morning we were allowed to sleep for about half an hour longer considering we were going to church at 11:00. By about 10:30 majority of us were freaking out about what to wear as we were told to wear our “Sunday best” but as always… everything was covered in red sand. When we finally managed to pry Curtis away from the mirror we made it down to the church whose occupants singing always managed to wake us up at 4 in the morning. It was very different to those back in England, the only similarity being the extremely long sermon, as the walls were completely bare and the only music provided was a crowd of children in the corner singing into microphones and banging on the drums. The colourful clothes of the church-goers and Bob’s magnificent dancing in is Hawaiian shirt was enough to make the trip not only a wonderful experience but hilarious too. When we said good-bye to the priest and everyone else some people got very emotional, as “everyone was so nice”, it was possibly the most adorable reason to cry we had ever seen.
After lunch we set out to Kakum (the rainforest canopy walk) in a truck with such terrible suspension it looked like we were having a mini-rave every time we went over a bump. When we arrived at Kakum with our buddies we discovered that not only did they have coke and popcorn, they had real flushing toilets too!
We set off into the rainforest after being told that it would take an hour to get to the bridge by our lovely group leader.
The walk wasn’t actually that high up although some of the buddies were terrified of heights so a song about just putting one put in front of another came about, I still cannot get it out of my head.
The walk took about 15 minutes and afterward we went to buy some presents.
Since it was Boothie’s birthday we had spaghetti for dinner and sang him happy birthday, with Loulous’ much improved rendition, while he ate his rock (a cake). It turned out that he had brought lollies to give to everyone and a riot almost broke out when he produced the bag.
It was a really good day and we are really looking forward to going back to work tomorrow…
-Ellen and Daisy out!
Harry- “Miss all the fam, having an amazing time, see you soon!”
Day 8
Today we went back to work, fun as always. We actually progress a lot with the playground and finished the mural of the very accurate map of the world. We managed to finally anchor all of the tires down, finished the A-frame platform, and cemented the balance beam into the ground. We had about 10 minutes of sun today, which almost became unbearable after standing in it for that long. That night we had palaver sauce and rice, which we were sure had been spiked with chilli, sauce while we weren’t looking.
Other than that not much happened. The dancers have now been separated from the drummers for tomorrow’s workshop and I (Ellen) am a bit wary as I have no musical talent to drum and no grace to dance.
-Daisy and Ellen again
Day 9
This morning we finished of the playground, ready to be painted the next day, other than that not much happened until the afternoon. At around 3 o’clock the drummers came for the workshop while a Ghanaian version of Louis Spence shimmied into our camp grabbing Angus and making him dance. We all thought we were safe as we the people who didn’t want to dance had chose drumming and vice versa, but that would be to easy, Louis made us switch around as according to him “everyone had rhythm”, something he soon discovered was far from true.
Although we didn’t have to perform the musical masterpiece that was our drumming, we all had to perform our dance, much to our horror. The people from the village found great entertainment in our un-coordination as they had been dancing all of their lives and we had had a 15 minutes session. After we had finished embarrassing ourselves we received quite a loud round of applause, much to our surprise. Louis Spence then came back out with his troop of merry dancers who proceeded to entertain us with fire juggling, acrobatics and threats to set Curtis on fire. Bob managed to record some great videos, which we watched when we got back to the camp. After that not much happened, apart from us writing this blog.
– Still Ellen and Daisy…
Ellen – “Hey Sally! I hope you had a good time with Mam, I miss you so much and I am sorry that I miss your birthday, today I thought that I got a tan like you but it was just a layer of red dirt making me look slightly more human. I did however get slightly sunburnt, even after using F50 sun cream 3 times which really sucks, see you soon!”
Daisy – Heyy I miss you so much, I am having a lovely time here and am looking forward to going to Volta. The food is really nice and I can cope with the loo but my clothes are very smelly after washing them which I not the best. Tell jess I miss her and I will be home soon loovve yyouuu xxxx
Day 10
The day started well with a fried egg sandwich then moved on to our last full day of project work. We painted the whole playground very bright beautiful colours, mixed by Charlotte and Hazel, who made it look very colourful and we were all very proud of it.
We also won many awards throughout the day such as: well woman, bucket head, sticking at it, mixing it up, cement head, the Daisy award, high flyers, cement head and many more which meant the boys worked extra hard to win as many prizes as they could.
Overall it was a very productive day that we are very proud of, even though a spider-bee landed on a still-wet tyre…
– As always it seems now, Ellen and Daisy <3