...and where did the time go? Before leaving for Cape Coast we were still ages from our flight back to Canada, but somehow now there are only two weeks left in our beautiful little seaside home!
It's a good thing that our workshops are finally beginning to truly peak. To see, in this past week, the Ghanaian peer educators entirely take over the workshops has been so rewarding. Girls who hadn't talked for the first couple weeks of the program are now presenting HIV/AIDS information to groups of 200 kids. Those who had always been strong presenters are allowing their peers to try new parts of the workshop, stepping back to delegate jobs and help organize the team. It is so great to see with our own eyes, the changes that have come about in these 25 volunteers in just a month.
Of course, we aren't done yet! We are constantly hit with new experiences...like the other day, when I was strolling along the beach only to see 6 fishermen, quite literally, swimming out of the ocean with meter-long fish in their hands. Or today, when I was standing in the middle of a road in a lagoon, when a motorcycle taxi drove by with two live goats sitting on the back. My favorite though is probably the day Mama yelled at me from outside because my laundry wasn't clean enough, promising I would have to clean all the girl's clothes so I could get more practice...Of course this was in exchange for her giving me laundry lessons, which of course totally justifies my cleaning 10 tons of dirty clothes...right?
(By the way, this is Shawn Potter writing, I am a volunteer with YCI!)
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