Ghanaian Adventures: Ga girls and dancing the night away!

Friday was our last day teaching the GA tribe. We started by teaching a group of young men that attend school to become phone technicians. Lynley had told us that they had not had much education so we didn’t quite know what to expect. Throughout our HIV/AIDS lessons, we found that they were smart as they asked some very interesting questions about blood brothers, condom use, and other topics. It is during our teaching that we face cultural issues that are difficult to discuss including women’s rights and tribal markings on babies. Afterwards, we went back to the young women’s group where we taught our iron-deficiency anemia program last week. Once again we taught our HIV/AIDS program which brought up some depressing comments about prostitution and gender equality. Shantel had a lot of fun handing out her pretty flower clips and several of the girls referred to Lacey as their “Mammy”. They sure had a lot of energy! We were quite sad to say goodbye.

Hilary and Ashlee's skit...Cameron has AIDS

Bailey with the crazy girls!

Well focused...

Mary and Ashlee

After dinner some of us decided to go dancing. Lynley gave Amanda a stunning makeover! Cameron, Lacey, Amanda, Megan, Bailey, Brayden, Kathleen, Ashlee, and Charles loaded up in taxis and drove to a restaurant club. We ordered pineapple juice and quickly moved to the stage. The DJ played lots of Reggaeton beats and we danced all night. Most of the Ghanaians at the club seemed to think we were crazy but that didn’t stop us ha ha! We were extremely excited when “Boom Boom Pow” by the Black Eyed Peas came on. We danced our feet off and had a blast! Overall, the day started the weekend off right :)