Lights off

Today we returned to 94 as we expected that there might be more painting to do.  Me and Tutu began the day by teaching Science to P5.  The topic of the day was Energy sources, not something I could remember much about from school (Science never was my strong point), but with the aid of the textbook we managed to get them discussing and hopefully understanding what the different sources of energy are.  We moved on to conserving energy however, which seemed highly inappropriate in the context.  In the UK it is easy to explain to students why and how they should save energy, switching things off, using public transport and such like are appropriate and relevant options.  However, in a poor area of Ghana, where they have a minimal number of electrical appliances, and all transport is generally shared, it seemed less important.  The lesson ran on longer as once again the next teacher didn't show- I am really not sure whether this is because we are there or whether they wouldn't have shown anyways.  The teacher in question spent most of the rest of the day in the staff room though, so I am thinking that he probably just regularly misses classes. 

We spent the next few hours applying a second coat of paint to the computer lab, which left it looking very nice.  Sunday pounced on the empty(ish) paint bucket as soon as we had finished (bad luck crazy cook lady), claiming she would use the end of the paint to decorate her room! I have never known so much competition for a bucket! Once the job was done, and we had scraped a lot of the spilt paint off the floor, we headed to Kasoa school for some ICT time, but "lights off" (the local phrase for no power) meant that our trip was pointless, and so we headed back to the hotel. 

Being in a little earlier than expected left us with extra time to head to the Chinese restaurant for dinner, it was a short tro ride away, and very disorganised (as with most Ghanaian restaurants), but the food was nice, and made a change from fried chicken and jollof or fried rice!