Another short blip

hello!

I have only 10 minutes left on the computer during lunch break! We are soon going to paint or batike (still can't spell) had a great morning today woke up and had an orage and a "filling coffee drink" for breakfast - the water is sooo hot that my homestay family makes me for breakfast sometimes i have to pour it before i shower and it is still almost too hot to drink. SO in the morning I sit and blow and sip and blow and sip on my tea as sweat drips down my face. ALso, here everyone showers twice a day!? I told my homestay sister/ aunt/ i dont know what to call her that I would shower in the morning and she told me ew no no no I must shower at night and in the morning because I was in the market. She also sends me to bed at 7 30 after we are done watching our tela novella together (its called alma you should google it Tay). ANYWAY a typical day here for me begins at 6 or 5 45 when I wake up and shower and then eat sometimes eggs, or fruit, DELICIOUS bread, one morning infant cereal (i channeled baby harrison as I ate). Then I walk a few blocks to blue gate where I get my taxi that costs 50 pesewas (about 30 cents) to get to school and then walk around a construction site to school. I usually arrive about 30 minutes early and sit on the steps or under a tree and read or write in my journal. Then we have class FOREVER from 8 -9 we share stories and confusions of our day and then language study from 9 to 11 lunch till 12 and then 2 very long lectures till 4 ish then we go home or chat outside together then as soon as I get home my homestay family fills me with so much food and if i dont eat fast enough vivian says "oh oh you dont like." "oh oh you are not eating fast enough" "oh show me your plate". She is very funny and comforting.

So far being here is great accra is very large and overwhelming but I love it. Everyone even those who ask to marry me or have their children or ask me for money usually just want to chat or "be my friend". we are here for one more week until we depart for Kumasi - super excited for that. Then we live in a village for 2 weeks where we only speak twi yeiks!


at school the workers are on strike so there is no running water - ehh. Most homes dont have it but mine does and an outside shower!! So nice.