So the past few days here have been quite entertaining...Thursday I spent all day out at the beach, which was awesome. It started out just me and David planning on going...than sarah,megan and zach came along so it ended up being a fun time. Got a little sun burnt but it's already going away.



Yesterday I went into Kasoa to go to the market. It was me, zach and ashton and one of the house moms- ma matilda. Well we went with her to just go get away for the day. She is one of those real girly ladies, always dressing up and always has her hair done. This is not a touristy kind of market that they take us before we leave to the airport, this is where all the ghanaians shop. These people sell some of the weirdest things. One lady had all these huge slugs, another was selling animal intestines...sick. Alot of dried fish and eel, thats what it looked like anyway. It was a whole different shopping experience. One of the main things we went there for was to get some fabric. They had tons and tons of beautiful fabric. Ashton got some for a lady to make her a dress, I hope it turns out good, we go back thursday to pick it up. Well a few weeks ago I took my earings out because one of them was hurting my ears and I just have never put them back in. Now this relates to my statement earlier about matilda being a big girly girl. Well we are walking and she sees that me and ashton both dont have earings in. So she just goes oh my goodness, buys us some and then the lady pulls me over and puts them in my ears as if I am fully incapable. haha. It felt like she pierced my ear again, oh it wasn't pleasent. Then she put the back on way too tight and it pinched real bad. But we just smiled and said ohhhh thank you and matilda was like and now you look girly. Oh you just look so good now. She is wonderful.


Also when we first got to the market, we were meeting a girl named Alayna up there. She is here at the VOH doing seminars for the teachers. She's 28 and comes to help the teachers with their lesson plans and things like that. So we are meeting her up there and when we find her she is with two white guys. They introduced themselves..Gary and Ben. Gary, who is getting his PhD in education is from California and knows Alayna because that is where she is from as well and apparently they work together. Ben actually goes to A&M and is a special ed major and met Alayna last year. Those two guys are in Ghana staying at a refugee camp. They came here in the hopes to start a school within the camp. Super cool! Alayna and Gary left for Accra and Ben decided to stick around with us so we talked for a good while about this place. He said the best way to describe the type of living it is is gypsy like. Some people are born and raised there, some come and go. He also said since none of them are ghanaian citizens, so they cant get jobs outside the camp so they have made up their own currency and stuff like that to get by. Insane...He also told us to come check it out some time next week before we leave, and i most def. want to go do that...go see a different way of living because we all know the VOH is like paradise compared to many places of refuge here.


That was my market experience. Twas alot of fun and im super glad I went.


Since I was gone all day, I didnt see any of the kids until dinner time. Michelle had stayed here and she came up to me once we got back and was like, if I could tell you the number of times Lebene has either asked where you were or what you are doing...I would be here all day. Haha so I went and found him, he flagged me down from across the lawn and ran and gave me a hug saying he was worried because he hadnt seen me all day. I dont know if he thought I would really of left without saying goodbye or what. Crazy boy. Last night we had a prayer night from 8 until 12am. It was a night of a few songs than an extremely long prayer. Almost every kid in there was doing the head nod falling asleep thing. It was pretty funny, Gameli was sitting next to me and kept dozing off then he'd get hit in the head to wake up--thats how kids get waken up at church or what not. But we made it through it and when you've been so used to going to bed around 10 everynight, 12 is late! at home I woulda thought that was a joke. I think they are continuing it again tonight so I may have to get a nap in sometime this afternoon.

7 days until we leave here && 8 until I arrive in American soil. Ohhhhh it makes me sad. But last night I had a dream that Gay Walters told me I was going on some medical mission trip with her on spring break....so Gay lets make that happen! haha

Missing everyone back home. Hope everyone is doing real good and are all staying healthy!

Sending LOVE from Africa.

"But you will recieve power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

Acts 1:8