A little of this...A little of that...

Not much has happened in the last two days, but I am sure I will find a way to make yet another long post. :) On Wednesday, after school we just hung out for awhile and had seminar. After seminar we made a quick trip to Evergreen (the grocery store) before dinner. After dinner, we went back to our area and played a card game. The game was going great, but while we were sitting under the pavilion, there was a bat. That bat wasn't the big deal. The issue was that the bat kept flying into the roof over and over. We were starting to worry about the little guy. That was until he drive bombed us. He flew into the middle of our group and landed on one girl's arm of her chair. We were all yelling/laughing and trying to get away from the bat. As we were all trying to get out of the way, the girl went to put her hand on the arm rest...right were the pat was! It was so quick! It gave us a good laugh. After we all gathered ourselves from that, we continued to play the game before heading to bed. Thursday was just another typical day at school. Just more talk about exams. At the end of the day yesterday, Richard, who is a teacher and also leads CAS, invited myself and who ever else from my group to come to his CAS group. (CAS is like an extra curricular thing, but every student is apart of one. Basically, they are trying to make the world a better place.) Richard's CAS group makes the fabric that a lot of clothes are made out from here in Ghana. It was a really neat process and he invited us to make our own cloth one day. We also stopped by some other CAS groups, one of which was making jewelry. The students make these things and then they sell the things and use the money to help out other schools. It is a pretty cool thing. The students seem to enjoy it. After we got back, we did the same ol same. Just dinner, a little talking, then bed. Today is Friday. On Fridays, school starts early for the assembly. The assembly was a presentation by the environmental CAS group. The students talked about the importance of clean water, not littering, and not destroying things by being wasteful. It was neat to watch the students who seemed to be very passionate about the topic. Side note: one of the facts the students gave: Only 27% of the world has access to clean, safe drinking water. I am not sure who the source is but that is a crazy fact! The students also asked for more bins (trash cans) and the principal said he agreed with them and would get them more bins. It was cool to see the power the students had with the quick reaction from the principal. It makes the students feel validated and active members. He then went on the scold the students. It was a quick change of pace. He talked about how the students are not acting like good members of society and if that did not change, they do not have a place at this school. Very intense. I am not sure if these are idle threats or not, but it had me shaking in my boots! After the assembly, things went on as normal. I sat on the computer for awhile. I did get to observe the teacher from New York city who is here on a one year leave. I really enjoyed her class. She has 9 students, most who come from other SOS schools. The students are all orphans or come from a unstable home life leading then to the SOS villages. It is great to see them getting an education and being so excited about it. Two of the students are girls from Ethiopia. From what I understand, education is not very high on the priority list, and girls get an education is an even lower priority.It was great to see those two girls. Also, there is another student from Ethiopia who is missing two fingers and has to use a crutch from war injuries. On one hand, it is so sad to know that but on the other it is great to see them here. It is sad that there are only 6 students from Ethiopia here. These students also come late into the year so they tend to stick together. The teachers and students tend to "blame" it on them. I think they need to take a step back and realize these students are coming in late, moving to a whole new country, and for most of them, English is there third or fourth language that they have only begun to learn in the last few years! Also, there class is held in a basement in a building behind all the other classes. The school is not really helping to make them feel welcomed. They miss the beginning of the year orientation then they are placed in a class together in a basement. There is a big lack in education to not notice how wrong that is. Enough on that, tomorrow we head for Cape Coast. This should be interesting. Word is that there are a lot of children begging and if you don't give them money, they get mean. I guess we will have to see who is meaner.