Community welcome ceremony

Day 3 – 5/07/2017
We woke up at 6, after having to move tents due to rain. The sand around us looked like a seabed at low tide after the rain got considerably worse over the course of the morning. However, a breakfast of eggy bread put us back in the right mood, and we went to school to watch the children starting the day with worship. It was incredibly atmospheric, and many of us were taken by surprise by the lively music, dancing and singing, almost completely led by students. Immediately after this, we followed a procession accompanied by drumbeats to go to our official welcome by the village elders. After lunch we attended a farewell party for some students teachers from the local college. Then our project work began with us carrying sand from the beach for concrete mixing. The sand buckets quickly became a difficult load causing many of us to attempt the load method of head carrying to humorous but less than practical effect. Finally the day ended with us singing with a group of school children, sharing old campfire songs as the night grew darker. A perfect end to a jam-packed third day in Ghana.