Saturday 16th July 2011
After a night of drinking and dancing to a live band and basically letting my hair down athe infamous Big Milly`s ,
"Great fun and i also met up with a friend Lindsay Williams who has set up her own voluntary organisation in Ghana :)"
I was the first to wake up in the morning so i went outside to sit on a bench and catch up with my journal i was writing because i have such a bad memory these days and i didn`t want to forget all the wonderful things i was experiencing in Ghana ,anyway i looked up i could see something brown and hairy looking over the wall with glass along the top of it ,yes i can confirm it was a monkey ,then i could see another one around the corner tied to a tree which was very sad :(
When the others woke up we all had breakfast on the beautiful Kokrobite beach ........
Above are just some of the volunteers who were staying in the same volunteer house as me and teaching children in other schools or helping with building projects in Ghana ,they were a brilliant bunch of young people ,all very clever and studying in universities around the UK .After breakfast we explored the beach ,sunbathed and had a swim to cool off!!
That evening we had another crazy night drinking and dancing to a live band wehere i went on stage grabbed the microphone and sang sing Red Red Wine my favourite sing song ,people i think thought i was part of the band and started to take photos LOL!!!!!
" A brillliant weekend of fun "!
The Ghana people would line the route with water,fruit and other foods to sell all carried on their heads ,they also had pictures and even music systems 
and TV`S lined up on the dusty roads as you got nearer to Accra .
with headaches ,it certainly wasn`t a dream hotel but it did have a loo that flushed 
and running cold water from a tap and the shower !!!
maggots crawling around your feet while you were squatting !!!
they loved colouring in their pictures with crayons and coloured pencils !!!:)
And the boys and girls all loved the Hokey Cokey !!!
And the boys loved the drums !!!!
The children loved having their hands painted :) 
They also loved the glitter glues and foam shapes of flowers and butterflies etc 
It was lovely to see the children enjoying themselves in school .
A Job well done by all the children !!!!!!!
In the video below the children thank Anna Ryder Richardson for their T-shirts :)
Below is a photo of a typical taxi in Ghana ,they usually had us all packed in like sardines as many as they could fit in ,no seatbelts and cracked windows was quite normal actually this one was an unsually good one and they would always have music blaring something like the artist Shaggy singing or some kind of Reggae music ,loved it !!.Then usually a policeman would wave us down and collect his money in some form of a bribe from the driver ,ther were road blocks everywhere we went apparently this is what they had to do to make up their wages ,they had no income from the police only a house .
Tonight all the volunteers decided to go out for a meal in a nearby village called OBO just a taxi ride away , we jumped in a taxi to have something to eat, drink ,dance and just let our hair down :) 
Some of the volunteers from the Chief`s Palace house where i was staying in Atbie ,making our way to catch a taxi :)
When we arrived at PointRoyal in OBO village some of the local children showed Jack and i how to dance the Ghana way :)
Thes boys really knew how to dance like so many Ghana men ,woman and children.they loved dancing and moving their bodies :) 
After we were well fed and watered we went back to the house some hanging out of the boot of the taxi which like i said is quite normal even in the rain ,it usually rained at night in Ghana which was a blessing or we would have no water in our tank to have a wash in the morning !
There was complete silence in the class because the children were happily engrossed in what they were doing ,then hildren from other classrooms without volunteers looked through the open shutters along the wall watching and wishing they were in our class . 
The teacher was so excited and loved what she was watching the children do with the arts and crafts and brought in other teachers and the headteacher to take a look who they kept thanking me and my other volunteer friend Sandra :)
Here is a video below ,the teacher is filming us and you can hear her shouting at the children ..........
The children would bring their books for me to mark :)Take note the naughtiest boy in the class standing on the right .................................it wasn`t long before i was teaching the children on my own with the help of another volunteer Sandra .
A barbeque was organised at the volunteer House and i spent the evening getting to know other volunteers :)
Lots more volunteers at the house .........................
We travelled to Lake Volta in the afternoon
where very poor people live and then took a boat out into the largest man made lake .......................
where i jumped over board for a swim to cool off
but found it difficult to get back into the boat !!!!!! 
HELP!!!