Weekend #2 and Beyond

This week at the school Jayme, Jen, Robyn, and Kyle started doing teacher training. I spent most of my time finishing up the library and training the staff on how to administer the medicines that we brought over. It was a great week but we were ready to have some fun by the end of it. Jayme, Kyle and I headed out on Saturday to Cape Coast to go to the castle that served as a slave trading point and colonial government seat. It was very informative and we really learned a lot.

We ate lunch at a place right next to the castle that advertised Obrunni food. We had high hopes but were pretty let down. My pizza with cape coast pineapple on it was great, but Jayme's club sandwich was awful (bread with the crust cut off with some canned chicken, hard boiled eggs, and lettuce.....no mayo or anything!)

Our next tourist stop was about thirty minutes from Cape Coast along the road back to Hemeng. Kakum National Park is a tropical rain forrest reserve that is well-known throughout Ghana. I thought it would be neat to visit and it turned out to be absolutely incredible. They have a canopy walk that lets you walk around the tops of trees that are over 100 feet in the air. It was so much better than I thought it was going to be! We enjoyed it so much that we are planning on going back and camp there this Thursday night on our way back to Accra. Make sure to ask us to see our pictures of Kakum when we get back to the states (this bad internet is really getting lame!).

On Saturday night we had party at the school for all member of the Church in the Hemeng area. There were about 50 people there. They are going to start meeting here on Sunday's instead of going all the way (about 20 mins) to Praso to go to Church. We decided to go to Praso for Church on Sunday and it was quite an experience. It was a good sized branch that was crammed in a tiny rented chapel. It was 95% in Twi and great. We were able to go to with assistant headmaster here at the school that started taking the missionary discussions when we first got here. He is committed to be baptized this Saturday so we are hoping that everything works out with that. Congratulations Francis! You will never regret joining the true church!

This week we will leave Hemeng on Thursday and stay overnight in Kakum park. Friday morning we will go to Accra and meet some of my friends from my mission. Friday night we will stay in Accra. Saturday we will travel to Nkawkaw and stay overnight there so we can go to church on Sunday there. We will leave Nkawkaw after church and go back to Accra to get Jayme on her flight back to the USA where she will promptly go and eat a Cafe Rio Burrito for me and send me a picture of it to get me through the next two weeks.