10th June: Ghana DAY FIVE - Fencing & Poetry

DAY FIVE: Thursday was a particularly fantastic day to showcase our expertise with different age groups, with Sarah leading a nursery rhyme and dance session in the morning to the creche and infant classes, whilst I called upon my University lecturing skills to take the teenagers through an English language class, in which we covered Shakespeare, and poetry (specifically in the form of limericks). This was by far the most enriching experience of the week for me personally, seeing the penny drop for certain students (particularly a superbly intelligent young boy called 'Jean') filled me with an enormous sense of pride, and thereafter, the children would hang their heads out of the classrooms and call across the playground to me, begging me to come back in and teach them again in future sessions. This was also the day, that we decided - in addition to the many hundreds of pounds already spent on this trip - to fund the labour and materials for a new £500 fence, which would border the perimeter of the playground to keep the children safe from a large 7-foot drop down the other side. We paid the first 40% of this up front, via trip to the local bank, and are now setting about fundraising for the completion of the project via our GoFundMe page, which had already helped to purchase the heaps of gifts etc for the children, and we are so eternally grateful for all your help on this mission so far. Meanwhile, our culinary adventure through African cuisine had now delivered us 'egg stew', fresh mango from the nearby tree, corn - roasted on a charcoal grill at a local market - and fresh coconut, where we were instructed to slice the top off and then lick out all the juices (steady).