A Full Weekend

We’ve had a great weekend filled with many adventures.  We got to sleep late on Saturday and went to the local market, where you could find everything from fabric to dried fish.  It was very, very hot and many of us decided to buy fans made from palms.  My new friend Tom helped us find the short way back to the hotel where we boarded the bus for the hour drive to the beach.  At the beach, Tom and I played soccer with John Rogers, our guide.  It was great fun, but really hot. 

                                              

Me and Tom on the beach

Early this morning, Alex and Taylor and I got up at 6 am to meet John, who was going to take us to play soccer with a local team.
 

 

Unfortunately, John’s alarm didn’t go off and we missed the game.  We will try again next week. 

 

 

Later in the morning we went to the church that the Amekor family attends.  It was a long service and still very hot.  The students spent the afternoon getting ready for school tomorrow.

 

 

I’m going to help in the 5^th and 7^th grade classrooms tomorrow.  For dinner, we went to the Amekors house and ate spicy rice called jollof rice and delicious chicken. 

 

The food here is pretty good, but there is a lot of rice and chicken!  I am looking forward to playing soccer again tomorrow afternoon at the school. 

 

                                                                                               Thank you,

                                                                                               Graham