Our second weekend involved a trip to the Volta region. It was again 3-4 hours in a bus to get there with all sorts of scenery along the way.
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| Volta Region |
Once we got to where were going...we saw a large dam on the Volta river. We climbed a small mountain overlooking the region which is beautiful and green with a big cross at the top. Then we went to visit a village where there was a funeral going on which was really interesting to see up close. We had passed some during the drive but now we could hear the music. The head of the village invited us to his home to drink palm wine (palm nuts are local and serve as the basis for soups, wine, oil and lots of other things) out of calabashes (which we got to bring home). Then we went to lunch at this awesome place with the perfect view of the region. On the way back we stopped at a monkey sanctuary where we lucked out big time and got a show immediately. The monkeys come right down and eat banana's out of your hand, one of the little guys put his hand on mine while he was eating his banana, it was SO cute. That was a real treat.
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| Top of the mountain |
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| part of the funeral |
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| drinking palm wine in a calabash |
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| feeding the monkeys |
On Sunday, before the Principal left on his trip to Austria (the Austrian government had invited a select number of school heads to come to Vienna along with the Ghana Education Service and there was already an agreement that they will be doing renovations at TemaTech later this spring for 3 of the departments) he invited us to his home for lunch. We were expecting just us to be there and didn't realize he had actually invited all of the key school leaders and our project leaders to join too. It was a beautiful lunch and we enjoyed the social time with them. The principal gifted Shin with some kind of crazy alcohol, I will use the analogy of moonshine or grain alcohol which I haven't touched since "fruit punch" in college. Smelling it was enough to keep me away but Shin liked it : ) and we got some cute pics of him trying it.
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| lunch at the Principal's house |
Sunday evening we had been invited to a beach party back at the same beach we had been at the weekend prior. One of Samantha's friends was having a birthday and was sweet enough to include us. This trip the beach was not nearly as crowded and a little calmer but still very lively. We had fun dancing and walking on the beach. Some of the girls went for a night swim and loved it.
Once we got to where were going...we saw a large dam on the Volta river. We climbed a small mountain overlooking the region which is beautiful and green with a big cross at the top. Then we went to visit a village where there was a funeral going on which was really interesting to see up close. We had passed some during the drive but now we could hear the music. The head of the village invited us to his home to drink palm wine (palm nuts are local and serve as the basis for soups, wine, oil and lots of other things) out of calabashes (which we got to bring home). Then we went to lunch at this awesome place with the perfect view of the region. On the way back we stopped at a monkey sanctuary where we lucked out big time and got a show immediately. The monkeys come right down and eat banana's out of your hand, one of the little guys put his hand on mine while he was eating his banana, it was SO cute. That was a real treat.
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