Week Five Update

Not too much of note as I am coming to the end of my fifth week here. The end is coming into sight, just over the horizon. I am getting into a good routine during the school day. I am reading a lot. I’m currently making my way through my sixth book of the trip. I finished the three I put on my Kindle, which I really enjoyed using. Wish I had put more on there. But the people over at NAP have a sizable collection of books, which I am now tapping in to. So that has been good.

The only major excitement to report since the Boti Falls trip was this past Monday we went to Accra Mall and saw the new Harry Potter movie. It seemed like every other ‘obruni’ in Ghana was there as well. There were also a good number of Ghanaians. I enjoyed the movie – although it can never live up to the books – and it was nice to go to the food court and be in air conditioning for a while. So that was fun.

And the only other thing of note has been the weather. We actually got a lot of rain today, so much so that it disrupted school. We woke up to find several classrooms flooded. And the roads get very muddy so the children and teachers can’t get to the school. But by the middle of the day kids and teachers were trickling in and there was a semblance of a school day. We had a day like this two weeks ago and it rained basically every day for my first two or three weeks here.

But what I actually wanted to note was that it hadn’t rained at all for the two weeks before today. The weather turned sunny and hot(ter – the consultants remind me that this is nothing compared to the dry season heat). I like it better when it rains because the temperature really cools down and becomes quite pleasant. But most of the people here complain about the cold if it dips below 80 degrees. It’s all relative I guess. Maybe today’s rain will bring back the return of some cooler weather, or maybe it is just an outlier as we come out of a short rainy season. But I’ve gotten to see both the wet and the dry sides of Ghana in the time I’ve been here, so that has definitely been interesting.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Everything is going well. We will be going on an excursion to Cape Coast (on the Atlantic, to the west of Accra) this weekend, which I’m looking forward to. Hope all is well with you and I will talk to you soon.