My time in Ghana will be up soon as I will be leaving back to the States in about a week. I think the thing that I am going to miss most is spending time with the children at the orphanage. I would really like to visit them again on my next trip to Ghana, which can hopefully be in the next few years. I have really become attached to them during my short stay here and would love to see them again. I am also beginning to think more about home and miss my family and friends a great deal. I am very excited to see them again and look forward to spending the rest of the summer with them. These past few days working at the orphanage have been very interesting and a lot of fun. The babies at the orphanage don't wear diapers, just cloth underwear that is changed after they have an accident, but being that many times the orphanage is short staffed or the staff that is there doesn't care to change baby cloths, the babies will stay wet for a few hours until changed. Well for the past couple of days I have picked up these wet babies not knowing that they were wet and have gotten my clothes rather soaked. Now I do find this somewhat funny that this would happen to me twice, but I also wish I could provide these babies with diapers because walking around wet like that is probably not healthy.

I let the grade 3 class that I am teaching know that I am going to be leaving soon and they all became very sad. I am going to miss them so much! I did promise them candy on Friday though so I know they're all looking forward to that. Although I did become very frustrated with how the school at the orphanage is run I am glad that I was able to learn this about the school and the people who run it so as to make me less naive and more aware of how things function at the school and in Ghana. It made me so frustrated that many of the teachers took advantage of the volunteers and had us teach most of the class while they sat and sometime did work but most times slept, listen to music from their phones, or socialized with the other teachers. This is not what I signed up for and most of the time I needed the teachers help while teaching because the children better understood certain topics when they were taught in their language of Ewe. I don't know any Ewe and one time I even had to ask one child who caught on quickly to explain it to the others in Ewe. This just frustrated me so much. I thought that I was going to be assisting the children who may need a little extra help pr attention during or after class, not teaching the actual class for hours. Coming up on this last week though, I don't think I will mind it much though as this is my last week with the class and I want to get as much as I can out of it and teach them as much as I can also. I want this children to remember the things I taught them and I continue to try my best to make the lessons fun and interactive no matter how frustrated I may get. The teacher also never provided me with the supplies that I needed to teach, she just handed me the book and said do this, but I have come up with some very creative lessons that the kids liked even with little supplies and resources.

Tonight another volunteer and myself, who stayed in Hohoe while the others went to Cape Coast because we've already been, are going on a hunt for some french fries. We heard about a hotel hear that makes them so were hoping tonight we can get a little taste of home. The weather has also improved a little and today it hasn't rained yet. Hopefully it will remain like this for awhile and I'll be able to a couple more times during my last week here.