Fun Days in Ghana

Last night after a fun day of presenting to students I had the chance to go to dinner at my cooperating teacher's house in Ghana.  His wife prepared quite a feast as you can see below.  This was my first experience eating a popular Ghanaian dish named kankay.  Everyone here seems to love it.  The best way I can describe its flavor is that of mushed up straw and grass that has been fermented thus has a strong vinegar flavor.  It actually is pretty tasty when eaten with a spicy tomato salsa.

Today I had the chance to take a little field trip with some teachers to a town called Abri where there were a set of botanical gardens.  We ended up taking a popular form of transportation here called a Tro-Tro.  It is basically a 13 passenger bus that is packed with people.  You end up constantly changing your seat as people get in and out of the bus.

An Oconomowoc student produced the following video to show a typical day in her life.  This is something that I hope to be able to share with some of the girls in Accra tomorrow at school.

We spent the afternoon today back at the school.  A US Airforce band on an ambassador type mission chose Accra Girls School as a place to perform.  It really was an amazing concert.  It is these types of Amabassador missions that the Armed forces does that makes me really proud to be an American.  I feel  like they help build bridges between our culture and others.

The girls posted some more things about their life in Ghana.  They are relatively simple questions but what is interesting is to see how Oconomowoc students answers might differ from the Ghanaian students.