Dear World

So, I am on the internet for only the second time since I have been here.  I thought that I would have internet access where I am but it ended up that I don't!  I wanted to do a day by day update but that obviously is not going to happen just yet!  Maybe when I get home I will put up important things that happened each day but for now I will just give an overview of a usual day and such!

I wake up around 6:15 every morning, shower, then eat breakfast.  The showers are outside, I have running water which is better than I thought it would be!  They are like metal sheets that seperate two showers; the doors don't really shut the whole way so I have to put my towel up.  After breakfast, I go to my classroom and teach.  Me teaching. Funny right?  I teach English to class four, the kids are about 11 ish years old. Give or take.  At first it was definitely intimidating and they didn't listen to me.  Apparently they don't usually listen to the white people so I told them just because I am white doesn't mean that I am stupid.  They thought it was funny but it is true!  They cane the kids at school which at first was unnerving, now it is just something that happens.  It is so funny because you can't even look at a kid the wrong way in the US without getting in trouble, and here kids hit each other and get caned by their teacher.  I only stay in the classroom until lunch time, and after lunch I clean my room, wash my clothes, or just enjoy a couple minutes of somewhat quiet time.  My first hand-washing clothes experience did not go so well... I had to wash them again.  Some of the kids thought it was really funny and the all said "Here in Ghana we don't use washing machines, we use our hands. Maybe you can teach people that when you get home."  School goes until eh, 3:30 ish. And then the kids are just everywhere.  The other volunteers that are with me usually are all together and so we really just try and keep order!  I get to play with the kids a lot, but my favorite time comes after dinner.  7:30 is prep time.  I am the only volunteer that goes and helps the kids with their homework and I love it! 
The way the kids learn isn't like in the US- they don't think for themselves.  If you asked them why 1/10=10% they couldn't tell you why.  They just memorize. One of the strangest things is how the kids use the bathroom during the day. They just go in the yard.  It was gross at first but now it is just how things work. 
The town that I live in, Ofaakor, is a great place.  There are a bunch of sellers and a tro-tro station right by the school.  A lady has a fruit stand and I get pineapple from her like, every night. So good.
Bathrooms.  Okay so this was a sore spot for me at first.  It is a toilet, but over a hole in the ground.  So there are SO many bugs (spiders- huge ones, flies, ants) and geckos.  It used to take me like two minutes just to walk into the bathroom but now I don't even look.  I am getting used to it! 
There have been some extremley frustrating times but I love it.  The kids are great, it is so sad to think that their parents don't get to enjoy them.

More will be coming as soon as I can but that is an update!!!
OH and I can see Royal Seed, the orphanage where the Rummel's adopted son is!!! I plan to see him a couple more times before I leave! He is literally a two minute walk away from me. So stinking cool.  Love you all, I miss you!

Blogging, Blogging, Blogging!

So I must apologize for being pretty horrible about posting in my blog!  Between my two jobs, packing, completing my nursing requirements for next year, and studying for finals, I've had little time to sit down and write something!  I don't have all that much time-6 minutes actually- but I want to let everyone know that I found out my placement today!!! I woke up with an email with that information and I am so excited! Sadly enough, my computer skills cannot find a way to copy-and-paste the letter yet; so I will try when I get home!  On Facebook IVHQ Ghana has a page-https://www.facebook.com/#!/IVHQ.Ghana
Click on their photos and view the Red Program page-That's where I will be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo!!

Oh and by the way. I leave in 4 days, 5 hours, 52 minutes and 20 seconds.

Much Love!