Wednesday, October 5, 2016

The Lowdown - Ashanti Region Training 1st October

On Friday we left a sunny Achimota for a rather rainy Kumasi. We really enjoyed travelling to another Region within Ghana and can't wait to share what went down in Kumasi (apart from rain)

The High's


  • During our five hour bus ride to Kumasi, we were treated to an air conditioned bus! What a great change from the TroTro breeze! - For more info on TroTro's see our previous blog http://goldghana2016.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/a-gold-ghana-guide-to-riding-trotro.html
  • Believe it or not, we had the best Chinese we've had in a while in Kumasi. Paired with Alvaro (Mhairi's new favourite drink) it was easily one of the best meals we've had!
  • Terri is now standing!! Well done Terri for getting back on your feet - no pun intended - so quickly!
  • We got the chance to visit Kumasi Palace! It was really interesting 
  • All of the team are getting more confident in training, and it shows! Well done GOLD Ghana for being confident trainers!
  • While on our bus, we were treated to a movie. Most of these movies were not very good, however, Carpenter Love was different. Laura and Mhairi were engrossed for the entire journey and all of the team were excited that a film was finally in English!


The Low's


  • Despite Carpenter Love, all of the other movies were rubbish. They also prevented us from getting our beauty sleep (which on our final week of Project, we probably could use!)
  • We discovered that some of GOLD Ghana are still kids at heart, when we heard thunder and lightening. But with 3 in a bed, snuggles were easy to get to cheer scared GOLDies up!

The Funny's


  • We had lots of "Ghana Moments" during our trip to Kumasi. From standing brushing our teeth on the balcony while watching the thunder and lightening, to going to a restaurant to find the chef has disappeared and then having to compliment the waiter on his paintings for fifteen minutes. Definite GOLD moments!
  • We attacked Alice and Mhairi and drew faces on their knees. Apparently this is becoming a trend in our Team!
  • GOLD Ghana were cold. Yes, you heard that correctly, cold. Are we acclimatising???
We're now doing back to back trainings until we leave, so from a tired but excitable team,

GOLD Love
XOXO

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