Village Lyfe

Alright!

So we left Kumasi on 25 Feb and made our way to the villages. The bus ride itself was a journey we passed funerals on the street walking carrying the caskets singing and dancing. The scene changed from city to GREEN mountains, palm trees, and dinosaur territory. The longer we were in the bus the more crazy I got and hyper then suddenly nervous! The group was splitting into three and we wouldn't see each other for 2 weeks - in retrospect not that long but it felt like it. Me, Sam, Aleah, Regina, Jesse, Bri, and Grace went to the Village of benim. We were met on the roadside by a group of kids (little did we know what they would be like!) Our first day we ate lunch and played with the million kids at our headquaters. the HQ is where we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner and were free to come anytime of day to relax and hangout. Then we were shown to our rooms and mine was HUGE and blue with two windows and a cement floor and totally empty with nothing but an egg carton in the corner. I slept on the floor and then went back to HQ for dinner only to find the rest of the group was MEETING THE ELDERS - so I showed up late for that good impression, right?

The nights I wasn't locked out of my house my room was wonderful! The people I lived with were wonderful, they spoke no english and got so excited every time I was in the home complex. There was one guy who spoke english very well, his name was Samson. We spent the first night talking for over two house about America, Ghana, politics, money, culture, and everything else. It was happy and depressing but most of all eyeopening. American's are idolized in the village by many and it is very hard to grasp.

The next morning I woke up to children sticking their hands and faces in my window "hi hi hi ubroni hi!" "how are you imfine" This is when I decided to use my clothes as curtains. Here we explored the village everyday walk around interact with other villagers. After breakfast we spent the morning going to a farm and seeing how people sustain their lifestyles - i ate raw cocoa and IT WAS DELICIOUS. It had the consistency of nothing I can really explain but it was great.

more to come soon!