I am in Kumasi! Internet is even harder to get to here because we have class all day then go back to our homestays. I live in a suburban area next to one of the people who work for SIT and my two friends - so I always have people to go to and from school with!
My homestay has SO MANY BABIES! I have a host sister who is 16 and is teaching me Twi my mother is wonderful and said I could sleep in her bed if I ever felt homesick. At night three babies uncle ben, baba, and joseph who are 3, 4, and 7 all sleep on the floor next to the bed. But at the house there are so many other kiddies that all play with me. There is no running water but it really is not a big deal - except last night when the power went out and I was stuck in the bathroom in the pitch black taking a bucket bath! Everything is cooked outside on a small fire and tastes AMAZING. It is so interesting to see the difference in parenting styles from the US and here - for instance uncle ben likes to play with knives that are larger than his left leg. But the funny part is that after all the knife playing and wandering around near open flames, the thing he hurt himself on was a plastic bead he got stuck up his nose. What an adventure that was. 15 different people all tried to help him get it out coming from all over the neighborhood as the word spread. In the end his sister got it out with a pen.
This homestay gives me even more food than the last - for breakfast I get 6-8 slices of dense bread and am expected to "eat all" so i eat 2 and take the rest to school for people or for my lunch!
Anyway so many more stories and adventures to tell but for now I am off to Dance class (woah)
love and miss
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