Wow! Yesterday amazing new experiences and a few confronting ones at the same time. My other volunteer living with me (Josie) came to the Orphanage and my friend Louise. We walked around the markets for about 2 half hours, was great to get to know the place. One situation a lady got pushed who was carrying 6 steel bowls of all different sizes on her head onto the road and the taxi hit her, people came to her assistance and we helped pick up the bowls for her but the astonishing thing is the taxi man just drove off i was so angry. The lady was so shaken up and couldn't walk properly. It was terrible. Its quite different here you need to walk on the road because there is no- where else for you to walk, but you have to walk on the left hand side towards the cars safest way. Bit scary though because some of them drive really fast but most of them are okay.
The Orphanage was so much fun today playing with all the kids got the best photos of them all playing and getting cuddles. Me and Louise have started painting the wall we have two coats of ocean blue. We are going to start painting the atlas of the world so excited to do that for the kids. Then they can see all the different continents in the world and where they live. It was horrible though because the man Mr J came back to the Orphanage drunk and yelling at the children, i am going to tell the Owner of the Orphanage next month about it. I am still finding it really hard, mostly seeing the kids on the street you feel powerless. I made a mistake today me and my friend Louise were walking to the Orphanage and these two boys (Gorgeous) age 6 and 3 were looking like they were lost we went to talk to the children. But cause i cant speak Fanti i couldn't ask them anything. So we asked this lovely gentlemen to interpret for us and asked where there mum was or where they lived, they said there mum had to go to the farm and they stayed back. It ended up working out me and Louise walked and another man walked them back to where they lived and there grandma was there. They just were so shy and timid, i know i am going to come across this situation a lot its just hard not to intervene. The good news is the other guy Azoari is going to see there mum and see if the children can come to the Orphanage during the day when she is at the farm so they are not wondering around. I am loving this experience but it's definitely hard at times not to get to attached and to try to look past things. Its going to make me grow. It's just somethings are so sad. I do love the people they are so friendly mostly around my little town. I eat really well as well. The house is beautiful. Went out in Accra weekend just gone it was great to catch up with everyone and unwind. We stayed in a hostel which was grand we had a bed each and three showers in the next room and a toilet (bonus) it's funny what you take for granted in your home country wow!!. Seriously you can not find one toilet in the whole town i usually have to hold on till i get to the Orphanage. I wish you could all the see the kids they are so cute and tough as well, i guess they have to be. It's a tough country. New blog soon, sorry still t4rying to put photos up computers are very slow teaches patience haha Talk soon
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