Hi Everyone,

This entry is probably going to be completely random and probably a bit incoherent...bear with me ;)

Today is Saturday...we had language in the morning and then we had to go into Techiman, so one of the PCVL (Peace Corps Volunteer Leaders) could help us develop HIV/AIDS presentations for school children. The Peace Corps takes HIV/AIDS very seriously and wants each volunteer to incorporate HIV/AIDS teaching into their projects. Tara, Beth and I are presentint to JSS (Junior Secondary School) children. They are a bit older and know English pretty well, so we won't need translators.



Sometimes PC Ghana is pretty unorganized. SED often seems to be the last sector to know when they are supposed to do things. For instance, we did not know that we had to do AIDS/HIV presentations until yesterday and we have to create 2 hour presentations for Tuesday. Not to mention we should make it fun and interesting since they are for kids.

We had a four day excursion, which we just returned from now...ok I am starting to write new from here. I was about to write about our excursion a few days ago and a big storm hit, so I was not able to finish, but luckily blogger saved what I had started to write!

So, it currently Wednesday. Ok starting from our excursion: we went on a field trip (called excursions in Ghana) to all these different businesses and organizations near Kofaridua and Kumasi. It was an ok field trip...very long and a lot of riding in a packed tro. I'm glad that is over.

Oh, as I wrote about before...we had our HIV/AIDS presentation yesterday. I presented with Tara and Beth. We tried to give them a True/False quiz....really hard to do with Ghanaian teenagers. haha they did not understand what was going on...luckily their teacher was helping us to translate. After that quiz, we played a few games with them which went over well. I'm glad we were able to have that experience. I think I would like to do HIV/AIDS education in schools and elsewhere.

One other note about our presentation: we did have a mix of girls and boys in our class. It was interesting to see that the girls really did not participate. I think one girl raised her hand and contributed once throughout a whole two and a half hours. Interesting.

Well, that is all for now! We are going to buy some ingredients for pizza that we are going to attempt to make!