Day 3

May 3, 2013

The first day.  We had a great breakfast.  The pineapple here is delicious.  I love it.  We got our bus loaded and headed to get money and water.  I have so much money.  I was so paranoid walking around.  We had a 6-hour bus right to Kumasi.  The country itself is so green and could be a beautiful place, but there is trash everywhere you look.  It is just so dirty.  People really do live in huts with tin roofs and people have incredible balancing skills.  There are tons of people walking around with something on their head that they are selling.  It was really cool to see.  We drove along the coast and it was so gross.  Tons of people live on the beach and the water is just so brown.  We got to the market area and people bought phones and we watched some kids from our bus.  We went outside to play with them and they ran away.  It was pretty funny.  I fell asleep on the bus-I couldn’t help myself.  We stopped and had lunch.  The place was really good.  I got chicken stir fry-totally foreign!-it was really good but man all I have done is eat and sit.  I am so full.  There are really big lizards that just walk around the place like they own it.  We had some ice cream and it tasted like cake batter.  It was so delicious.  We drove past little villages the whole way to Kumasi and it is cool to see how people live.  They don’t have much but they get along and I think it is incredible.  I was really surprised at all the range rovers I saw around.  It’s crazy that you can have dirty poor poverty and then people with range rovers.  I don’t understand that.  We got to Kumasi and unloaded everything.  The beds are very hard but whatever.  We went out to the local hospital and they made us dinner.  We met an older lady named Felicity and I introduced myself and she kept asking ‘Which one?’  I didn’t know what she meant and finally she bursts out “Which boy will be mine!!” It was hilarious.  Afterwards we went and met with the director of the hospital and he filled us in on what is going on in Ghana with healthcare.  He offered everyone beer and brandy.  It was crazy all the girls got beer.  I think only three of us are LDS so it was pretty darn funny.  A girl got her name changed to brandy.  It was really interesting to listen to and I am already learning a lot of things to use in my paper.