Day 20

Monday May 20^th, 2013

It was difficult to get up this morning.  Once I finally did I realized I received an email from the Estonian professor at Indiana University.  I was shocked to get a reply so fast but they say I can get a degree in Estonian while do Graduate work.  So that is comforting.  When I get home I want to ask mom and dad to take a trip out there and check out the school and things.  See if I even like it.  To see if its even worth my time and money.  We went to the __________nursing school.  We taught over 250 people how to do CPR.  It was a really simple day for me.  Lisa and Kevin both taught separate classes and then the rest of us helped train the students on the mannequins.  I am glad I got to help train though because the repetitive nature of things is engraining in me how to do infant CPR, which I find useful with all my nieces and nephews.  I met a really nice girl in the class.  There are some cute Ghanians.  Richard needs to get on that!! So we taught until around noonish and headed to lunch.  We ate at papaya which is a fast food chain here in Ghana.  I finally got myself a cheeseburger.  It was the sauciest thing; reminded me of Estonia.  But it was so delicious.  It really hit the spot.  I was wiped out when we got home and just veged in the room.  We then headed out to the city to go to the Accra mall.  The drive was so long there but so quick back.  I still can’t get over this country.  You have people that can’t afford dinner and a block away you have people spending a years salary on a pair of shoes.  I don’t understand how the difference happens.  I really wasn’t ready to be in a mall like that.  It was so American.  After the three weeks we have had it almost didn’t feel right being there.  It felt kind of wrong.  I could feel myself thinking ‘I want that, I need that.  I can afford that!’  It really bothered me.  I got some ice cream and we shopped around.  I feel so cheap too.  When I see something I think ‘I can get that for a third of the price at the market!’  I will be so cheap when I get home.  We saw Iron Man 3 which was pretty dang cool.  I really enjoyed it.  Tasha and Kayla sat next to me and they were hilarious throughout it.  All the girls are really getting to me.  That is once thing I am looking forward too.  They are all starting to have issues with each other and trying to get me on their side of their own issues.  It is driving me nuts.  So I am taking the Switzerland stance and saying ‘that is interesting’ and cutting everyone out with my iphone music.  I like it.  The volunteering really kicked my butt today.  I am exhausted.  It still baffles me that CPR is so new to them and I learn it in high school with an anatomy class.  How can that not be a common lesson around the world? I mean, they are nursing students.  They should be prepared in all situations.  Somewhere here, the system is flawed and I am not sure why.  I am not sure how it could get fixed either.  Definitely not this generation.  Maybe in a few generations it can work itself out.