Thursday 22nd October 2009
Hello everyone Pip, Ben Beard, Lucy and Paul here.
The day started off with another late start and lazy morning. A breakfast at 8 consisted of scrambled egg, toast, porridge and pineapple. After a quick wash of smelly clothes, most headed for the beach before stopping as we experienced our first Ghanahian shower. For most, this decided that cards was the best option for a good few hours, under the cover of the food hut.
The rain stopped so a trip to the beach for sun bathing and paddling was welcome.
A lunch of Yam balls, tomato salsa and bread went down well before everyone went to get ready for the afternoons coaching session.
In the afternoon we returned to Brenu School; the same place as yesterday but today we were coaching children nearer or sometimes older than our age. We were accomponied by only Mr Miles as Mr Pierce stayed to look after the “sickies” and Mrs Maishman and Miss Court departed for a very new experience. They had to teach Ghanahian teachers how to teach netball! This proved a very difficult but rewarding task as most of them did not speak english and were in absolute awe of actually holding a netball!
The girls divided the small number of Ghanahian girls into half and taught them two different warm-up games that we, ourselves, regularly use. It took the learners a while to pick it up but they did... eventually!
The Boys used the same techniques as the day before resulting in great progress made by all. In other words, they messed around with a football for an hour!
After the exhausting coaching session (for some,) we all returned to Stumbleinn, fought for cold showers and ate a dish closest to home... SPAG BOL! Which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
A very sleepy group went to bed... or so they thought as the year 12 boys very maturely stole the year 11s shoes, gaffa taped footballs to palm trees, moved washing lines full of wet washing and hid creepy Ghanahian statues in more unsuspecting people's beds.
Just a typical day for the “Ghana gang.”
Miss you all.
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