DAY 9 – MONDAY 13TH JULY 2015
Today we were back on project work. Breakfast was vegetable omelets and toast. The projects were painting, mixing concrete for the library and collecting water (as usual). The teams worked well together and completed the day’s projects efficiently. Lunch was yam chips and sausage. The rest of the day after project was relaxation. Daniel Effah let us plants cocoa trees; one each, on the grass next to the school. Dinner was vegetable curry. We also had a football match with the locals, finishing 2 – 0 to our team.
DAY 10 – TUESDAY 14TH JULY 2015
Breakfast was Pancakes at 7am as usual. Today’s jobs were cleaning, painting and getting water for cement mixing and cleaning. The painting was mostly of pictures and educational things. The painting was excellent, lots of colourful pictures of animals among educational drawings like number scales and the alphabets. After those jobs were done people mostly chilled out. For lunch it was spaghetti with vegetable sauce made by prince. For tea it was Rice with sauce and
DAY 11 – WEDNESDAY 15TH JULY 2015
Today’s breakfast was eggy toast. The day overall was incredibly proactive. Both the girls and the boys came together to make a lot of headway on the waterfall /second kindergarten room. The room now is almost completed and is really colourful and child – friendly. For lunch we had a bean and rice dish which everyone wolfed down. We showed the PTA our project work and I think people felt proud and quite achieved. Mine and Liv’s poems were read out, which again impressed the PTA. The boys played their second international game against the younger children at the school and won 4 – 0, it was a nice day.
DAY 12 – THURSDAY 16TH JULY 2015
Once again we were woken by the sound of the cockrel. At 7am breakfast was served in the form of scrambled eggs, simplistic but a little slice of ham. Todays job included cleaning and finishing the kindergarten rooms. The waterfall now complete with fish , the land complete with a cow, chicken, snake and snail. Aside to the room, work began painting the sign. A month ago it was rusty wreck, now a vibrant flourish of colour. Although the sign wasn’t easy, it had its ups and down. One “rascal” child felt the need to get the red paint pot and tip it all over the sign. Only thanks to steady wind and the forgiven nature of the artist of the time (Mrs. Russell) could the work be saved. Lunch soon arrived with Spaghetti Bolognaise as you can tell, we are being fed well. Then came a trip to the local waterfall with our buddies, the water too cold for us but the locals loved it, it gave us a chance to cool down and wash our vile smelling clothes, on the way back the bus stop at a bar for minerals. Dinner was rice with a vegetable sauce. With a bit of insect repellent and a pair of goalie gloves the boys finished the day with a match against the locals.
