pre-glona

so in order for our group to get to the schools we're volunteering at at the right time, we have to drop the kids off for new horizons then drive to glona. we end up getting at glona about an hour early right as the public school kids (who we borrow classrooms in the building from) are getting out of school. there are literally hundreds of kids. the first day we went, my friend brad and i tried to play soccer with them. it was hard because it would end up being about 20 on 1. they decided brad wasn't good so when i tried to play, they told me white people could play soccer. i made them give me the ball and kept it away from them for about a good minute (which was pretty good when i had 20 converge on me and more coming by the second). this one kid wouldn't stop making fun of me so i nutmegged him and everyone started cheering. they decided i was good and wouldn't let me not play. this one little boy joshua kept making fun of me because i was tired. (it was also about 95 degrees and 100% humidity).

the second day we got there, the children all knew what the white tro-tro meant and surrounded the van before it stopped. i played with girls yesterday (tuesday) and danced and learned different clapping games. they think its soooo funny when i dance (a. because i'm white and b. because i can't). everyone in the Akan ethnic groups names their children based on what day of the week they were born. A boy born on thursday, for example, is Yaw. so they sang a song, if you were born on monday come in and dance. then they'd form a circle around the people dancing. brad made the mistake of throwing a kid in the air and then catching him. he had to do it about fifty times after that. we also played the largest game of duck duck goose on the planet.