So by this time next week I will be back in Texas. Although I am very excited to get home, I am going to miss Ghana very much. Leaving the children at the orphanage will be very tough and I will miss them so much! My class has already let me know that they want to set aside Thursday to write me letters that I can take with me and to also take a class picture that I can frame and hang in my room. I also promised them candy which they are all looking forward to. One thing that I am not going to miss about Ghana is the unpredictable weather and the unreliable city systems. For example, currently the city water supply has been shut off for about 2 days now and we have had to manually fill up the toilet to flush it and take showers with the water bucket. I don't mind doing these things because I know it could be worse, but today it got worse! When we got back home from working at the orphanage this afternoon, we learned the the reserve water supply that we had been getting our water from had run out and now we really had no water at all, just the drinking water that comes in the small plastic satchels. This means no shower tonight and a very smelly restroom. I'll cope though and keep reminding myself that in just a few days I'll have my nice shower and clean restroom. I really have been open to change here in Ghana and have not minded all the comfort changes from home and have actually enjoyed "roughing it" but there comes a point when it just goes a little too far and I would just really like a shower. I don't want to sound like a complainer but for this reason I am really excited to get home.

Back to the children though. It feels so weird knowing that I will have to say goodbye to them soon. When they ask if I will return, I tell them that I would like to but I know it probably won't be soon because trips like this can be very costly. It makes me sad to know that the next time I see them, and hopefully I will, many of the little ones may not remember me and many of the older ones will be off at college. A lot can happen in a couple of years and I am going to miss the way things are now. I am trying to take full advantage of the time I have left here with them and I already know that it is going to be so hard to leave them and its going to make me so sad. I want to mail things over though and try to sponsor a couple of the children and make donations to the orphanage to help. I will also be in contact with a few of the children over email and keep in touch as much as I can because these children have had such a great impact on my life during my weeks here. I won't ever forget them and don't want them to forget me. I'll be blogging a couple more times before I leave to document my last days here. They are going to be bittersweet but I am going to make the best of them... no running water and all!

Oh and we found french fries and they were some of the best french fries I've ever tasted!