June 10th, 2012 - Bucket Baths and Hand Washing
Today
during breakfast we bought phones, sim cards for them, and minutes. For a very
basic phone (and I mean really old school), one sim card, and Ghana cedi worth
of minutes it was 56 Ghana cedi. That is about $31 US dollars. My phone number
if you're trying to text/call from the US is +011233248207663 (and yes the plus
sign needs to be included). It is free to send texts if you enable the SMS
messaging on your google chat through gmail, and then it is cheaper for me to
text you back. So feel free to send me texts every once in a while!
We
got a demonstration today on what our home stay family might be like. It was
quite frightening. The main lesson is that we just have to be upfront with our
families though and ask them questions if we are unsure about something. We
also learned the correct way to take a bucket bath, which was exactly what I
expected it would be. They showed us how to wash our clothes by hand and it
wasn't too bad. For the rest of the day we basically just relaxed and packed up
for leaving in the morning. Breakfast is at 7am, and after that we are going to
Kukurantumi and heading to our home stays for the next ten weeks.
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