6:30pm on Saturday
April 28, 2012.
Well, we are arriving back in Accra today after being away
for a few days. We went back to the
island today for the last time. Our
family gave everyone coconuts and had us sit for a while. It was nice to see Beatrice and her husband,
Prospa (1.5), Vita (5), Richmond (4), Titi (24) and his wife (22), even Elijah?
(17) was there… he was the one who cut the coconuts mostly. I was taking pictures of Beatrice and Elijah
as they were cutting the coconuts and Richmond, just lifted his shirt and took
a wiz right there wih all of us just sitting there. I didn’t realize that he had walked right
into my camera path, so I have some disturbing photos of him. (yikes) I guess it proves that our project is
meaningful. Especially when he had an
outdoor toilet he could use not even 10 feet away. Granted he is only about 4, but still.
This morning we packed up from Chances hotel and drove to
Tema. In Tema we stopped at the Ghana
MTC. We didn’t actually see any of the
missionaries, but we saw their housing and we are going back to have Sister
Grahm, the MTC president’s wife come with us to the SOS Children’s
Village. Then we will see a unique health
presentation to the missionaries in the MTC.
It will be graphic K
After the MTC we were going to go to a coffin shop, but we
sort of lost our way a bit, and ended up not finding it. I did however get some photos of unique
shaped coffins. They were literally
shaped like a Taxi, a small taker truck, and a large semi. The book at the Alma house has photos of a
coffin shaped like a chicken. It is a
normal thing here to have odd shaped coffins.
We passed a car that was literally on fire today, that was
way creepy and it made me realize how fleeting everything is.
After the MTC, we drove to the harbor again to go to a new
island for EPI. This island has one of
the new merry-go-rounds on it. School is
out right now, so there were not many kids around, but we saw ducks for the
first time!
Then we went back to the harbor and picked up Issac, George,
and Dr. Facer. Dr. Facer wasn’t able to
come until today because he was in Puerto Rico at a NASPA conference. Remember that Issac and George work for EPI
too. We met up with Dr. Jake on Pediatorkope
Island. We looked at the painting that
we did last Monday. Much of it is
already worn off due to use and kids not allowing it to dry properly. We shouldn’t have watered the paint down so
much. Then we walked to the family that
we stayed with. They brought out chairs
and had us sit for a while. I pulled out
the bubbles for Vita and Prospa (Dr. Facer took photos of this, remember to get
copies from him). Then our family
actually brought us all coconuts! Yeah! That
was fun. Even though most of us didn’t
want any coconuts, we felt obligated to stay and have them. It wasn’t too bad since Gillian brought
straws! She even left them for our
family. Oh… and they brought us water sachets
too!
After this, we trekked back to the boat, and went back to
the mainland and headed for Accra and the Alma house.
·
Breakfast- eggs, toast, oatmeal(runny) that you
put apricot jam and sugar and pour sweetened condensed milk over (all weird,
but tasty!).
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Lunch- energy bars, jerky, crackers and a cheese
wedge (and other little snacks)
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Dinner- Spaghetti noodles, sauce with lots of
veggies, and fresh pineapple.
