Heading to Battor then to my village on Sunday

A human being is a part of the whole called by us"the universe,"a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearet to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

-Albert Einstein

All right time for huge amounts of spelling errors(sp?). I've got 30 min to describe about 2 weeks so sorry i'm gona have to pick and choose. One thing i forgot to metion about in Accra was people selling items ( i think i forgot i cna't rember) peopel walk in amongst traffic as they're stopped selling things that are carried on their heads (some peopel holding/carrying too). You can get water, pop, food (mealish food or small tidbity or deserty), fruit/vegetables. There are even people selling items as well. And when i say people aer carrying things on there head they range from small to gargantuanly huge. I've seen people carrying at least 3-5 stacks of 24 packs of pop, huge bundles of wood (in Ada). People here are insanly headstrong (yes i know bad joke, cut me some slack). So we left from the Accra to Ada(to say in Bed Bedeku in Ada). The ride over was so awesome. We drove in a truck and i got to sit in the back, OUT SIDE IN THE OPEN AIR NO SEAT BELTS(sry mom). The wind against you is just so relaxing and the sceneray and sun, AMAZING. It wouldn't be the last time either, at least 3-5 more times and once at night in pitch black (by the way it gets dark here at like 6-7 and i mean pitch dark). That one time at night was amazing the starts, beautiful. It was funny the first time i rode with just Jackson(Francise) in the back. We were both facing the back looking at everything that passed. But after about 45-1hour he had to turn around and face the same direction as the car was going. It was because he couldn't take or wasn't used to all the people that were staring at us. It was funny. So we got to Ada. Bedeku was the village we were staying in but the peopel we stayed with, Dinah, Happy(not sure of spelling) and Sala, lived in a house more accompinng to western standards. We started language lessons at a school where we took part in their Dangme lessons and also at night we had Dinah's Neice, Vida, teach us as well. IT WAS AMAZING(i need a thesouraus). The first time we went (to shcool) the teacher wasn't actually there. So Jackson taught us the alphabet on a chalkboard their instead. All these little kids on break circled around us and were yelling and screaming. At one point we all said the alphabet in unison(we have video of that). School was awesome, except for the Kaning. The still hit students here some more than others. That was hard to watch. But the teacher we had only did it a few times. He was a good teacher in my mind. He was loud and very into the teaching but it was hard for him. They have a system of Nursery then Primary then JSS (they are different levels of grades/schooling). The kids in all grades speak the language but they can't read. So in some classes you have kids for all schoolings and they may be in all the same level but you have kids who are going to graduate but can't read the alphabet. He was trying hard. He joked a lot with the kids to make the atmosphere enjoyable but he also complained a lot aobu the fact that we could do the alphabet in 2-3 days and the local people couldn't even read. But he was doing this more to try to motivate them. There was this man named Jeff who was a science teacher and lived next to us. HE was so cool. He was always so happy and excited, ALWAYS. Just an all around happy guy.

There has been rain here and one morning we missed school because of it. We were waiting for Jackson to come take us (we realzied after awhile he wouldn't always be on time). Because of the rain there had been a flood near by. The drains backed up in other villages and flowed down to another aread that got flooded. He had to go help a friend move stuff from his house. Most things electronic were destroyed. This was just one night of rain that caused this. We also got to tour a local radio station(community) Radio ADA 93.3. It was really cool. We learnt that before that radio station got funded there was only 30min of the Dangme language on the radio once a week. I better go now there's tons more but to much to type even in 2 more goes. From now on i'm going to have to pick and choose (like I did in this one) when i type. Well see everyone in about a month and sorry to all the people that i didn't e-mail back(muh bad). PEACE