Got a chance to sleep in this morning. I tell you, I don’t know what it is about the bed in this guest house. I love it. I do think however, about just how many more beds I will sleep in before I get home. Let’s see….1, 2, 3, 4….it may be 3 or 4 more, not sure. Oh well, gotta go with the flow. I found out that there is a washing machine here at the guest house and the lady that keeps the house actually came to my room to pick up my clothes and the detergent I brought and washed them! I was so happy. I was starting to have to reuse a few things that I’ve sweated in and I wasn’t feeling too good about it. Anyway, the driver came to pick me up around noon and I headed to the office to meet Reggie. When I met him we left again and went to lunch. Angie told him to take me to this one restaurant and we went to what we thought was the place. I kind of knew it wasn’t the place because it was a little…hmmm, how do I put this?- hole in the wall. It was outside and it was in this small corner somewhere with just a few people and even when we asked for a seat, they found some random table and placed it on a nearby stage for us to sit at. Dirty dishes were everywhere…I was trying to just be grateful. Reggie wasn’t feeling it either, but he figured since Angie suggested it, he’d stay. He just kept asking me if I was okay and if I was happy and really just not wanting me to go back and give Soaries some kind of bad report. But I just told him to relax because he was so worried about pleasing me that he kept making mistakes. Lol. It turns out it wasn’t the right place after all and later when we saw Angie she kind of jumped all over Reggie for taking me there. She was like, “Why would you take her someplace I wouldn’t even go? Why would I recommend a place like that Reggie. You know me better.” It was so funny. Anyway, I got to the Street Academy late and was only able to spend 2 hours there working with Philip and another young man names Stevie. Philip knew all the spelling words from yesterday when I tested him again. Today we worked on reading and I had him read some children’s books to me and I tested him on the spelling words that he read. He did good today. I’m going to keep in touch with the school’s director, Mr. Lartey, to make sure everything is working smoothly with this new project. He keeps going on and on about how I started the project and it’ll have my name on it and the like, but I just came for 2 days! Lol. But I’ll continue to help him on it in the States. After I went back to the office to meet Angie. We decided to go to the mall and the movies tonight…me, Angie, Vivian and Reggie. The mall here is new and it’s pretty nice. The movie we chose to see was “The Ugly Truth” with Kathryn Heigl. Came out a little while ago in the States but I never saw it. What a treat it was too. That movie is Hilarious. I haven’t cracked up at a show or movie like that since “The Post-It Sticks Twice” episode of Sex & The City Season 6 when Burger broke up with Carrie on a post-it. It was very funny. For a second I missed the States a bit watching the movie. I haven’t watched any tv since I’ve been here and the only American channel I had was ESPN…CNN is global. In the guest house, I don’t have tv so I may watch some dvd’s my brother burned for me but I’m usually too sleepy to get into them. When we left everyone was honking their horns and dancing in the streets because while we were in the movie Ghana’s soccar team won the World-Cup- the 21-and-under World Cup that is. It was a big deal because I think it was the first for an African Country. Plus the other professional team was the first African country to qualify for the real World Cup in 2010 in South Africa. So it’s a great time for Ghanaian’s right now. Tomorrow I will spend some time with Angie’s family and head to Edmond’s uncle’s funeral. We are going to show our support.
*Hi Ashlee! Miss you friend.
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