Day 12

Sunday May 12, 2013

Akwaaba! Hello! We were up super early from the tree house.  Richard is hilarious I love that guy.  His cell phone kept going off in the night and it was a church song.  It made me smile.  I mastered the bucket bath this morning only to learn that the water was running.  Flip! We headed out for Kumasi, which was basically a ten-hour drive.  We stopped on the way at the Kitempo falls.  They were beautiful.  The water has boreholes into the actual rock face and they just drip right on through.  Man it was so cool.  At the bottom the falls were huge.  It was such a nice little break.  I couldn’t sleep at all on the bus so I rocked out to my headphones and just watched the countryside.  It was so relaxing.  It just blows my mind how different things are here compared to America. For the first half of our trip we were on a dirt road.  We had to drive around puddles and pot holes and we kick up dust.  The roads have ruts in them so the bus shakes violently.  A bunch of people got motion sickness.  It makes me so grateful for roads at home.  The actual ‘highway’ is a one lane road.  Passing is quite the system.  They use their horns to signal other drivers as where as their blinkers to tell if it is safe to pass or not.  Traffic clogs up in the larger cities but it flows.  The people see our giant blue bus driving past and they look at us with such awe.  When we wave you see these bright white teeth peer through the smile and they wave back.  If I waved to a stranger in America and they would think I am so weird.  But they are just so loving and warm here.  I really enjoy it.  The pictures don’t do justice to what I have seen.  I saw a guy on the side of the road holding a Hyena! He had slit its throat, but I saw one.  I like to think that they Hyena attacked the man.  Man always wins.  The last hour I got really restless and was so grateful once we arrived in Kumasi.  It feels like home here.  The hotel feels so clean and I am so grateful to be clean.  I refuse to do my laundry-call me what you want.  So I had it sent out.  Plus they need the money more than I do.  It costs nothing and I would rather help them and get the awful chore done.  Ah.  I love Ghana.  Tomorrows clinic will be great.