Our third day in Ankwanda started with us all being woken up bright and early by a cockerel who is not a fan-favourite amongst us. Despite weary faces we were all ready to start the project. This involved us smashing floors with sledgehammers, cleaning away the rubble and cleaning rooms so that they will be painted the next day. We all attempted the tasks with some seeming to be budding builders amongst us. Having finished our work for the day in the early afternoon there was little time to rest as our buddies and seemingly all the children in the village were waiting at base for us. With varying degrees of success we played catch, card games ad sung together although many members of the team did butcher the Christian songs they taught us.
Due to fact of it being with Seb’s and Honor’s birthdays we were treated to games around the campfire. This involved a national anthem sing off where our proud rendition of God Save the Queen saw us cruise to victory despite being vastly outnumbered. Then there was a dance off where a Ghanaian child awarded Alex Wood for his class display. A special mention must go to Henry Heath whose questionable moves stunned everyone into silence. A great day finished with a delicious Ghanian meal called Palm Soup. We all went to bed knackered looking forward to the second day of work.
Our camp has been infiltrated by goats who have since eaten all our food supplies, we have sold our belongings in exchange for insect repellant and TP has been dragged into the rainforest after being mistaken for a gorilla (Zac’s bit)
On our second day of project work we made good progress repairing paths with cement which we mixed ourselves. We then moved on with the painting of the halls and kindergarten classrooms. After lunch we painted the courtyard area of the kindergarten which made a huge different and really brightened it up. We then spent the evening with our buddies before eating our dinner in the company of a large spider.
Saturday was very interesting for the whole group with a visit to Kakum National Park rainforest with walks along rope bridges 30m above the ground.
Henry was practising those moves just before your trip – dancing with his Mum!