Again, I know it has been a very long time with my last post! It's been very busy!!! But that's really no excuse...
I spent the last 4 days in Ghana... We went on quite a last minute trip! It was an epic adventure... Through Togo... 4 boarder controls. It was a crazy experience! It was an amazing experience to see two other West African countries... Ghana is so different to Benin obviously! But having driven for 7 hours of so, it was amazinig to see the difference... it is far more developed, the air was cleaner as we weren't living in a port! We stayed at the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Base and woke up to the peaceful sound of birds singing! Something I haven't heard for a long time!
Anyway it was a fantastic trip, and it feels strange to be back on the boat again!
I'll try and keep this post as brief as possible as well as filling you in on everything that's happened!!
I have another new part time job!! I now work in the starbucks cafe in the mornings to help out as they are short of staff... So that's another new job!
The weekend before last I went to an orphanage... Having spent a lot of time in Romania in orphanages I was intruiged to see what it would be like. We didn't get to see a lot of the facility... though I don't think it was very extensive. I guess from what I saw that all the children just sleep in one room... and their ages range from babies older teenagers of 16-17... It was a lot of fun singing and dancing with them... and I chatted to some of the older girs... in very limited French... But overall it was a great experience!
I visited a different Benin church a few weeks ago... and one in Ghana at the weekend... One thing that struck me was how loud they are! I guess they want to make it as loud as possible so that everyone in the neighbourhood can hear what's going on! I found this particularly liberating, due to the fact that we have to think so much about how loud we are being at home! The one thing I love about all the African churches is the music... they are all so musical, singing dancing...very loudly! And sometimes a random person will just get up and start singing a song... a few seconds later everyone joins in! A few times there has been nothing more than a drum accompanying them!
to be continued...
