Tuesday July 20th - Giving out the pen pal letters

On Tuesday afternoon, Juliana and I passed out my students pen pal letters to the Ghana students. We gave 6 letters out to the year 4 students, 6 letters out to the year 5 students and 8 letters out to the year 6 students. Many students smiled upon receiving their letter and I took each child's picture so that we can do a picture exchange as well. When classes ended for the day, 5 or 6 students with letters came and sat with me and asked me to translate some of my student's letters. I read the letters with them and we'd discuss how they would respond. Some of the questions my students asked included, "Do you live far from school? Do you take the bus or walk? What is net-ball? and How is the weather in Ghana now?" The Ghanaian students are supposed to have their response letters back by Thursday so their teachers can edit and then they will rewrite them before I take them with me this weekend. (I am going to require my students to put the same amount of effort into their letters next time.)
Before leaving the school, Sarah, a girl that helps at Juliana's house worked with me on my Krobo language. She was very patient with me and slowly pronounced the words for me so that I could write down the English phonics as she spoke. Her and I rode the tro tro back to Odumase and I then went to my guesthouse. I put on my running clothes and went for my first jog in Ghana. I heard a lot of people yelling, giggling, and pointing in my direction as I ran by. I apparently was rather entertaining. I ran around the town for 22 minutes then I returned to the soccer pitch in front of my guesthouse and ran with the fut-ball team for a few laps. They said they wanted me to train with them every day. I said, I didn't want to embarrass them too much by out-running them. They got a big kick out of that.
After my run, I took a shower then went back to Juliana's for dinner. I had yams and Kontumre stew which is a spinach-tomato stew. I had two boiled eggs in it as well. After such a filling meal, Juliana walked me back to the guesthouse talking of education and child psychology all along the way.