Scorpion!

Me and my mom were walking back from a guest house with a lady named Silvia when we hear Silvia say,"Oh my goodness! There is a scorpion!" So me and me mom look at where she was pointing and sure enough there was a scorpion right out side the door to the guest house! It was about the length of a book and almost as wide as a book! There was a guard coming out of the guest house with us and he chuckles and steps on it, the scorpion tries to sting him but his leather boot is too strong. When the guard steps on the scorpion the scorpion scurries away, and the guard steps on him again. The guard had to step on the scorpion about five times until the scorpion actually died. Me and my mom were so scared. Ever since then I've always been careful about where I walk.

This isn't the real scorpion we saw but it looks a lot like it

Dey have taken da lights

So....we were in our living room doing home school when the power turns off. Charity was in the kitchen blending tomatoes for dinner then we hear the blender stop and Charity say, "Ah!" Then about ten minutes later the power comes back on and we hear the blender start back up again. Another fifteen minutes pass, the power turns off again and we hear Charity say from in the kitchen,"Ah, what is da meaning of dis! Ah, dose people!" We were trying as hard as possible not to laugh so loud that Charity could hear us. We thought it was funny because we thought the same thing, "What is da meaning of dis!"

Sandra and Williet

Sandra and Williet are two of my very good friends here.

Williet- Is twelve years old and is the youngest in her family. She has twin brothers: Enoch and Enos, a brother who is living in Accra (along with Enos), and a brother living in the USA. Her mom owns a fabric store with beautiful Ghanain fabrics and her dad is an architect.
I met Williet on our first day of church in Ghana. She came right up to me and asked how old I was, where I was from and where we are living in Ghana. Then we both went to the youth camp for our church together. She is a very happy and lively girl who loves, loves, loves candy or anything sweet. She likes to dance and sing, she also likes mermaids, banku (a fermented corn paste) and okro (okra) stew. She loves having new fashionable clothes made. She also told me that when she finishes high school she would like to travel to the USA to attend BYU. When she finishes college she plans to go on a church mission and when she gets back start a family. If possible she would like to be an astronaut but she enjoys taking care of people so a doctor or nurse would be more possible as a career. She said that she hopes to see me at BYU and if not to meet up with me another time "if God permits". I will miss her a lot when I leave.

Sandra- Is twelve years old. She is an only child, which for Ghana is quite unusual. Her mom has a shop near a large market called Kotokuraba. I don't know excactly what her dad does but I know that he works at the Accra, Ghana Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint Temple a few times a week.
I met Sandra at my (old) school's orientation day. Then we ended up in the same class, so we got to know each other better and better. Sadly we attended church at different buildings, but at school we  talked a lot during break and when the teachers weren't in the class. The first time I had Sandra over to my home Williet came with her, we made an apple pie and that was unusual to them.
Sandra loves to sing, read and spend time with her family. She has an amazing voice and hopes to become a professional singer in the future. She likes banku and okro stew, and fried octopus. She dosen't  care what she looks like from the the outside but she cares about how she is on the inside. She doesn't like candy quite as much as Williet but she has a little bit of a sweet tooth. Sandra hopes that she can go to BYU, go on a church mission and start a family. She said that I should go to BYU for a least a year so I could, possibly, see her. She also said that I should come back to Ghana to visit her. Coming back to Ghana has been on my bucket list ever since I got here. She is an amazing friend and I will miss her a lot when my family leaves Ghana.

Me and Sandra

Me and Williet dancing the Bobobo, a traditional Ghanian dance

Sandra singing

Me, Sandra and Williet. We made an apple, cinnamon pie.

 We got the recipe from a magazine that my friend Yasmeen sent. Thanks Yasi!

My Freckles

This is a funny story from today at the Deaf School in Asikuma. We did a lot of work today at the school so the kids were in a different room.

I went into the room where the kids were studying/working to see if I could help some of them with their math. When I went in all the kids were really excited. After about two minutes one of the kids (who looked about ten) came up to me (with a group of kids trailing behind) with his science book. He flipped it open to a page with a list and pictures of  skin diseases. I was looking at all the pictures until I got to where the child's finger was pointing. It was a picture with acne looking white dots all around the eye. Then the child pointed at the picture in the book and then pointed at my face, pointed at the book and then at my face. Then he drew dots with his finger in the book and then on my face. After I understood what he was saying I said," No, no, no." Then I pointed at the book and at my face and shook my finger. I repeated this until they did their sign for "I understand". Freckles are sure not common around here.

I thought that that was really funny and weird.