I haven’t really partied much on this trip, but I definitely tied on a good one last night and didn’t head to bed until 1 or 2AM. I felt it this morning in my pounding head so I took advantage of the “study day” to sleep in. I lounged around in my room until lunch time. After lunch a group of students went to the beach – which is probably where I should have went – but instead I stayed in to work on our papers. Our papers and presentations are due by 12midnight tonight and we give our formal presentation to the community tomorrow. Today was a busy work day with intermittent breaks to take a walk, get some pineapple juice, and attempt to buy a dress from a street seller (her price was too high and she wouldn’t negotiate).
As the time is winding down, I am becoming very reflective about my experience here – what it has meant, what I have learned, how I have grown. I know most of the learning will probably happen long after I have left, but I always try to over-analyze and process. I wish I would stop that and just be in the moment. Be here, in Ghana, for the next 6 days. Our final trip to Kumasi should be a good time and, along the way, we will be visiting a couple different villages and village projects. I am looking forward to that and to learning more – the sponge that I am.
I am also starting to look forward to my next trip – London, Paris, Belgium, and Amsterdam, here I come! (And, maybe Berlin, Prague, Munich, and Manchester if I can swing it!)
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