Using his Head! Riley's Day

Things are going great, feels like we have been here at least a month

already, the days go by at normal speed but everyone feels like

they have been gone from home for a month already. The construction of the school is going good. We start at about8:00am and then teach school from 11-12ish and then go back and help with the school if we like. It's pretty fun and neat to watch because everything is done by hand and in flipflops. All the wood is cut by hand. Next time I come im definitely bringing a jig saw, it would help out soooooo much haha.

Richard and Robert  (the volunteer leaders) are fine, we are with Brite right now who is also with DIVOG, he has a hard time understanding our english sometimes but they are all great guys and our saftey is always important to them.

We went to the "winery", it was a half hour walk/hike through the forest where some palm trees had been cut down and they drain the palm oil/wine from it...kinda like sap from a tree.

Im not sure why they dont have a saw...it probably just cost too much

to get any power tools and if they did they couldnt afford them all,
how would they pick which ones to get? Cellphones are very cheap here,
when you come you can just buy one here. Robert said his
phone was like 40$ and then everything is pay as you go from there. So
cell phones are pretty cheap and most adults have them.  In this village there are masons, carpenters...etc. and they
all just work together, I don't think anyone is paid. It's just kinda
like a mini Zion here lol.

Yea, some teaching ideas might be good, I'm teaching 10 years olds. So
far the only game I know to play after the lesson is heads down thumbs
up or seven up...whatever its called. They really like it though.

Brite is from Ho...everyone in DIVOG is from Ho so far, and none of
them have ever left Ghana. Robert has tried to get a visa 3 times but has
been denied every time. He says it doesnt really matter what you say,
they just kinda randomly choose who they give visas too. it cost 115$
to try and you can only try every 6 months.


I've "used my head" more in the last couple days than I ever did in high school or college!  I've carried logs, wood, cement, water, sand all on my head for the last few days!