Once again, I have been very bad about keeping up with this blog. I apologize, I know some people back home are very interested in what I've been up to over here. I really appreciate all the support though, so thanks!
Well it's been over a month since my last post. I have still been teaching art here at the International Community School in Kumasi. But, I also started helping out the kindergarten teachers in the morning, when we don't art classes. That has been a lot of fun, even though some of those kids are quite wild. But I have been kept very busy lately, but it has been fun and it really isn't too much work or anything. In the middle of February, I was able to travel to the Village of Hope and I spent a little over a week there. We had a 2 day midterm break here at our school, but I was able to miss that whole week. While at Village of Hope, I was helping out a girl who's volunteering there, teaching... art! It was actually a lot of fun, I got to see the differences in the way the kids behave, and me and the girl were able to exchange ideas for art projects. When I wasn't helping with the art classes, I was playing football(soccer) with the P.E. classes. It was awesome to have a week off from school here, and I had a great time at the Village of Hope.
Now, I have have also really been enjoying myself here in Kumasi, especially this term. I am in charge of a sports club this term, so every wednesday I go and play either football of basketball with a bunch of the kids here. That is always a ton of fun, and I now look forward to this club time every week. The kids all embarrass me when we play football, and even basketball. Some of the kids are really good, and I am not very good at either sport at all! But I still have been having a blast playing with these kids every week. We've also started taking the kids swimming at a nearby hotel on Saturday mornings. I only made it to that once, but that was a lot of fun as well. Teaching has been going well, and I am still enjoying teaching art very much.
I am actually now in my last week here at ICS. It has come so quickly and now I can't believe I will be leaving this school and Kumasi at the end of this week. I will be heading to the Village of Hope to spend a month or so there. But I am really going to miss the kids here. All the kids I have gotten to know and been teaching are all really nice kids, and it has been such a blessing getting to know them all. I have also made a few very good friends who stay in the boarding house here. It will be very sad to leave all of the friends I have made here. I am sure, if I make it back to Ghana in the future, I will have to come visit the school here. It has been a great experience teaching here and I have really learned a lot. I have been blessed in so many ways being here, and I have grown a lot since being here as well. I am sad about leaving the people here, but it will be a lot of fun to spend my last weeks in Ghana at the Village of Hope. I think I will be ready to head home in Mid-April when I am planning on leaving. I will definitely miss everyone here, but I have also been missing my family and friends back home, so it will be great to get back and see everyone.
I am really not in a blog-writing mood at this particular moment in time, so I have to end it here. Sorry if it's too short for your liking, or not interesting enough, but hey, I'm trying. But probably not hard enough... But it's ok, I'll get around to posting another blog in the next week! Possibly....
Much Love.
