Day 2 pictures

One of the many school buildings

Entrance to the library - 22000 books!

A real deli sub. Concentrate...and open wide...really wide

Day 2

Had a busy busy day today. Met with the admissions officer of the school to find out the process of applying for a place in the school. Its very detailed so will tell you about it when we get home! Had a tour of the school and spent the afternoon at the National Prep Wrestling Championships which was certainly an experience! Pictures of both to follow. NYC tomorrow, very excited!

USA School Pictures

Murals painted onto the walls

Home time!

Football Field at Blair Academy

Arrival and Day 1

Hello from America! We have arrived safe and pretty well. The long journey and the change of time zone has taken its toll a bit, but getting used to it now. After 2 1/2 hours in customs in America we met up with Stacey and drove on the I80 to get to her home. The buildings are amazing - beautiful wooden houses with rocking chairs on the front porch - straight out of a film! We have spent a day at the Blair Elementary School which is like our primary and have lots of information to take back. Getting a tour of Blair Academy tomorrow and then a trip to Lehigh College where we get to see the National Prep Wrestling Championship Finals - I'm so very excited! Will try to get some pictures up soon. Good night!

Have a great time

Have a great time in America Mr and Mrs Hunter and hope you find out lots for us there!

David in Ghana

More Nature Photos

Cocoa

Some pictures of our trip to the Cocoa farm and Kente weavers.

Project Presentation

Here are some photos from the presentation from the kids out here. It really was a fantastic display.

POST BY DAVID COLEMAN

Today was exciting lots of people speaking to me tommorow we are going to cocoa farm. We had dinner with the kids who won the awards and they ask me lots of questions and they thought i was 30 years old wooops ! We saw dancing from the headlines school kids and their sense of rhythm is better then ours.  Ghana lost the football but Ivory Coast won and I won loads of coca cola merchandise which is cool

I have hardly had a minute to blog much myself but hello to all back home. We are having a good time and soon to head out to watch Ghana versus Zambia at a local 'spot.' We have been busy. Today we took part in the school worship which was amazing and very charismatic and loud. Then Mrs  Gibb and I shared some of our teaching ideas with the teachers at Headlines but really we have as much to learn from them if not more. Then we were treated to an amazing cultural display of project work with pupils telling the story of the Trokosi (find out what that it) and some examples of cultural dances. We will teach them some of ours on Friday. We had a planning meeting about next years project and some topics that came up were: mock elections, adinkra symbols and kente weaving, the cotton story, climate regions/change, weather, stories in the nursery and more. Let us know your ideas. David is coping well and enjoying himself alot but also looking forward to home.

Day ?

Hi all,

The sun is coming back after a day and a half of a hazy mist. Nearly!

Second and third school lessons came and went with successful P.E. for both junior and senior classes. Football was the lesson with some passing coaching and then a game for two 45 minute periods running into each other. The kids liked them (only a couple of injuries) but I was shattered after.

A second day of project presentation gave me the opportunity to relax into my main job out here of photographer. It was fantastic with some great pics to follow and some film to better convey the sounds. It's a shame you can't feel the heat and all the other sensations from being here. It really is a great experience.

 Lunch saw us dining with staff and children who had done well in some of their exams. More food (most of it lovely with only some being 'different') was consumed which seems to be quite a major pastime on our trip. I didn't think I would need to diet on my return but just maybe at this rate!

Mike

Nature Photos

Right, we went to the zoo today and I got some pictures of animals and birds from around the area. Everything can be found around Ghana. See if you can name them