June 24, 2012
Today was amazing.
It’s Sunday, so we didn’t have practicum or class today
(wooooooot!). Peace Corps organized an
excursion day to Boti Falls. This place
has hiking and waterfalls (clearly). We
have to drive about an hour to get there, and we trek down 250 stairs to get to
twin waterfalls. It was gorgeous! I still don’t have a camera, but I had people
take a billion pictures for me (and with me).
We got to explore around the waterfall.
A bunch of us walked along the rocks behind the falls and got an
entirely different view. It was beyond
beautiful. And so peaceful.
After leaving the falls (and climbing back up those 250
steps), we went on a hike. It was pretty
intense. Lots of climbing and slipping
and sliding and panting. It was more
than exhausting. But totally worth
it. At one point, Tony (a Ghanaian Peace
Corps staff member) yells “This is punishment!!” It was soooo funny!! I had to stop walking because I was laughing
so hard and I didn’t want to slip and fall!
Anywho, it was so amazing to see all the landscape around us. Tall trees, dark caves, huge rocks. It was great.
After the strenuous hike, we ate lunch.
We were promised pizza…and Peace Corps delivered!! It was an enormous and legit pizza slice with
cheese, veggies, and meat. AMAZING! I love how we have only been here for 3
weeks, and we were dying for pizza. It
was sooooo deelish!
After lunch, they said we were going to go look at
another waterfall. We get to the site,
and do some more hiking. It’s a smaller
(but just as beautiful) waterfall. We
were sitting on rocks just looking at it, when Tony notices it’s starting to
sprinkle. He tells all of us we have to
get out of there and head for the bus. It
was such a light rain, all of us are hesitant on leaving. But being in Ghana for only a few weeks, I’ve
noticed these rain storms can get pretty extreme. Tony knows this too, and screams “Run for
your lives!!” Haha!! Seriously, that guy cracks me up!! It was so funny! We start walking back to the bus, and the
rain picks up hardcore. Alex, Angel and
I decide to take cover under a tree until the rain passes. We see others behind just start running
towards the bus, so we do the same. I
brought my umbrella, so I pull it out, and simply walk to the bus. It rained for a good 30 minutes (at least),
and we had to wait for everyone to get back before we left. Some people had stayed behind closer to the
waterfall to wait it out. We finally
headed out, all soaked to the bone. Despite
all the mishaps, it was such a great adventure.
And I think everyone else agreed.
We get back and all decide to work on lesson plans
together at the Golden Spot. It’s kind
of nice having all teachers in this group, because we all have to prepare in
the same manner. So it was really nice
having a giant “study group”. We wrote
our lesson plans and drank a few beers (which probably made our lessons more
interesting). It was very relaxing.
I come home and eat dinner, and hang out with Ama and
Aquia. We are kind of just sitting
around, so I pull out my mp3 player and have them listen. Well, I had Ama listen, because Aquia was
angry with me at that point (I wouldn’t give her chocolate) and wanted nothing
to do with me. So Ama and I were lying
down on the spare bed, sharing my headphones, and listening to music. After a few songs ended, I looked over at
Ama, and her eyes were closed. How
adorable. She had fallen asleep. It was so precious. After a few more songs, I woke the girls up
and made them go to bed. Which is
exactly where I am about to go. It has
been such an exhausting and exciting day.
I think I will do as Ama did, and fall asleep while listening to
music. Day-ee-ya!
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