Home.Sweet.Home

Reasons that I am happy to be back in Asamankese:

-Auntie Jo and Belinda. I was so excited to just hug Auntie Jo. I missed that woman more than you know.

-My own bed

-Belinda’s delicious cooking

-not smelling like a musty old backpack anymore

-being able to condition my hair. It was getting gross!

-the internet

-the lovely and very friendly people in this town

-the mangoes in the tree out front are much bigger than when we left them

-I have more than 4 outfits to choose from to wear

-Seeing my beautiful women again

-teaching

This is home.

This morning we went to the market. We needed to get Petra a new phone and I wanted to see all my lovely Asamankese faces. It was so good to see all the smiling people that say, “Maaaarning!” and “fine, fine. Wo hote sen?” and yell, “Meho ye” back at them. Felt so good to be back.

We stopped by to visit Smart and as we came down the hill, we saw Cynthia...selling from the road side at a table instead of off of her head!!!! So exciting!!! Apparently this spot opened up temporarily, but she can’t stay here without any money. It was just so nice to see her able to sell pineapple, watermelon AND pawpaw at once! So proud of her! I bought a watermelon. Yum.

We had class again today. That was super exciting. I was definitely ready to get back into the swing of things. We have about a month left of classes until the graduation ceremony on April 25^th!! That is just crazy to me! It is going so fast!

I taught my ladies “head and shoulders, knees and toes” today and we sang it out loud with the actions. All the children from the hillside that sit outside the school building were all singing along and doing the actions too. It was cute.

Emelia spelt the word “sit” today!!!!!! I know this doesn’t sound like that much. But last week she was having trouble writing her alphabets and this time she beat the other women to spelling this word out loud and writing it on the board! I was so excited for her! She gave me a high five and I told her to “pat herself on the back” (since we learnt the word “pat” as well...might as well put them into use haha). So exciting. I love seeing progress, it’s wonderful.

Fun fact for the day from Auntie Jo:

The human body, it can’t do anything. God made the human body to make noise. If a bull comes into your room, you will scream and run away. You can’t do anything but you have to make noise. The bull is made to be in the compound or in the woods looking for food. But if it gets into your bedroom you will cry. Eh! The human body is nothing and then it will just end up in the morgue. It is just fresh piece of meat then. Like fresh fish meat.

This conversation continued for 25 long minutes. Interesting woman. Such a funny one she is.