Hello all blog followers! Welcome to the blog site! The Millbrook students/faculty members are continuing their luscious adventures in Ghana day-by-day. Another early wake up this morning with a breakfast consisting of milo and cereal. (milo is Ghanaian hot chocolate-type thingy that we drink in the mornings.) After the breakfast meal, we traveled to the orphan home. Upon our arrival, we joined the sunday church service. The service took place outside under a beautiful tree. With the sun shinning brightly through the green leafs, we experienced a true Ghanaian church service. The service had lots of cheerful singing, dancing, and rhythmic drumming. The morning was eye-opening to all people. Emma F. can dance really well, and she proved that with her awesome moves during church! After the religious morning came to an end, we spent a little more time at the home. Then we yondered back to the hotel area. The name of our hotel is The Sealane Hotel. We briefly snacked on some fresh fruit products before the little kiddies from the Orphanage Home joined us in our hotel pool space. We laughed, splashed, and shared with everyone. We had to set some guidelines because swimming ability was lacking in some children. John emphasized that the children could not swim past the blue line. It was too deep on the other side and some of the little ones could injure themselves. After multiple cases of Lamb Toe, John had to enforce a "no-running" policy for the people that were there. Outside of the watery goodness, many children enjoyed drawing pictures and learning the art of creating friendship... in bracelet form. People loved their friendship bracelets and they had a blast picking out all sorts of different colors. Very near to the sitting area, is an empty stage. Everyone was goofing around, pretending to be a famous musician on the stage. There was singing and dancing from both cultures! Later, the children had to depart from the Sealane Hotel. Isaac, one of the oldest orphans, is leaving for his boarding school tomorrow, so we had to say our final adios's to him today. It was sad, but the time spent together was a time worth spending together. We will see the other kids when we return from our strenuous adventures through the outreach program, so we didn't have to say goodbye quite yet.
The american people had some nice down time to sleep and make chit-chat with one another about their time in Ghana so far, away from home.
Day 5 was spectacularly, amazingly, good. There were ups and downs like any other day ever, but we battled through. We fought like warriors atop their noble steeds, and we acted as a unite and grew as people in all categories of life. We thank the people around us, for always being around and doing the thing that is theirs. Sanks.
Favorite Memories:
1) Doris taught Kayla and Emma F an awesome hand clapping game about going to school. After practicing, we're pretty good at it. (Though we can barely keep up with the kids.)
2) Senior Benard (as opposed to Junior Benard) went around the pool showing everyone his magic tricks, and teaching us how they were done. He says he doesn't actually believe in magic, but he believes in tricks. What a sneaky guy ;)
3) Kayla spent some time talking to Richard and Sowah. Richard was generous with his compliments, but very shy too. He told Kayla that he wanted to tell her something but he was embarrassed so he had Sowah repeat it for him. Sowah proceeded to tell Kayla that Richard really loved her and that he wants Kayla to be his girlfriend. Kayla was flattered and thought that it was cute, but she had to decline because of many reasons.
4) Mary and Senior Benard had an intense conversation about the seasons of the year. The conversation topic came up, because the idea of our four seasons was foreign to the Ghanaians. They have a two-season country. They have a wet season, and they also have a dry season. But all seasons are fun seasons!
5) During the sing/dance time, a couple boys (Wisdom, Sowah, Richard & Isaac) were having a good time rapping.
6) Junior Benard was a splashing fiend. After his fiending was over, his eyes were badly stung from the water in the swimming pool. His emotions quickly improved and we knew he was back to his crazy self.
7) A man in town ran up to our bus and was talking to Gib and Kayla through the window. Gib ended up trading him a t-shirt out the window. The man on the street, whose name was Emanuel, gave Gib a really cool necklace in return. Memories were created in this interaction.
P.S. (Don't be confused by the title of the day post. 'Peas Lettuce Ketchup' really means 'Please Let Us Catch Up'. It is just another cool thing we learned in the country of Ghana.)
The Above Blurb Is Written By Gib Mitchell.
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