Thanksgiving Day

Yesterday was Thanksgiving, and I have so much to be grateful for. This awesome adventure has less than a month left, and although I am very anxious to see my friends (or at least talk with you more easily) I realise how much I have learned about myself and how God provides our real needs.
I started the day baking cookies for the Thanksgiving dinner the Wrights' hosted for all us displaced American  teachers. At 10 am I had an appointment to get a body perm with a beautican Joyce had previously  taken me to for a haircut. This is one of the few times I ventured out on my own in a taxi, and admittedly I had no idea where I was going. I had a map drawn by another teacher that located the beautician at an major intersection in another part of Accra, but not directions how to get there. Here when you get a taxi you must "negotiate"  the price before you get in the vehicle; the first taxi driver said 10 Ghanaian cd's (dollars), which was more than twice my expected amount. Since he didn't budge, I sent him away. The next driver started at ten, then 8, and I said it shouldn't be more than 4, and I started walking away. We settled on five, and I was off. That was more landmark than the perm! I also dickered for the taxi home. The perm, as always left me with a bunch of curls I don't like the looks of, but that's nothing new. Hopefully it will calm down some before school on Monday, and if not there's not much to do now. I sweat so much my head is wet my the middle of the afternoon, and the long, strangley look is worse than the curls, so it was a calculated risk.

Wednesday at school was Field Day, a whole day devoted to phys ed games for all the students with teachers supervising each activity. I was the official time keeper. so my loud voice (plus a microphone) told when to start a new game, give a five minute warning, and when to end and rotate to the next activity. That gave me plenty of time to go take pictures of the different activities, but of course, I'm not in any of the pictures. In the morning there were about twelve different teams with everyone from seniors to kindergarteners on each team, in  the afternoon there were dance contests, socceer games (teachers. housekeeping and other staff  verses the high school socceer team) and other activites. One of the games involved all the students taking off their shoes and putting them in a big pile then the teams sent one member at a time to go recover their shoes.

Well, if I'm going to post this today, I have only ten minutes until the internet connection dies (7 pm to 7 am connection) so that's all for today. I hope you all are having as wonderful a Thanksgiving weekend as I am.

God bless your day,

Diann