The weekend of a lifetime!

We have had a busy last couple of weeks here in Ghana! Last week we continued to go to our internships. I went with a different mobile teller to an area close to where we are living in East Legon. I also have been doing more book keeping and transactions in the office. One afternoon I joined my roommate Beth at her orphanage! It was fun to play with all the boys! On Wednesday night we went to a place to watch the football game and eat with a bunch of students from the CIEE group. Afterward, we went to the beach for Raggae night! It was super fun! There is a live raggae band with dancers and tons of tables, chairs, and such right on the beach. It was so relaxing and peaceful! That night when we were back at our home stay getting ready for bead, Beth saw something in a what looked like a bad mosquito bite move in her skin. Long story short, we ended up pulling a worm/parasite thing with treezers from her leg. I spent the rest of the night in a hospital with her and one of our professors. The swelling has gone down a lot now, and they say it was a fly bite and that fly laid larvae in her skin. On Thursday we had class and then departed for the Cape Coast! We stayed at a beautiful beach resort. There were little huts, that we stayed in, scattered along the beach with palm trees everywhere. Simply beautiful. Then we toured Elmina Castle. The tour was very informative and it was so sad to see the conditions that the slaves suffered through. You could smell many of the same scents in the dungeons and cells that were once so dominant. The dungeons were very small. Depending on the dungeon, there were at least a hundred people in one room. No one could even stand straight. People had to do everything in the dungeon and were there for about three months. On Friday, we went to Kakum National Park and participated in the canopy walk! It is probably the coolest thing I have ever done in my life! We walked up to the first platform in a tree and from there we walked across seven bridges between the trees! We were about 100 feet above the ground and trees! There were elephants and birds under us (even though we weren't able to see the elephants). The bridges would move a lot and sometimes swing as people walked across! The views were amazing!!! In the afternoon we toured Cape Coast slave castle which was also very saddening. Many of the same conditions existed, but the dungeons had two hundred people per room in the dungeon for a total of about a thousand people. That night when we got back to the resort, Beth found out that her laptop was stolen from our room. On Saturday, we went and visited with village elders and it's chief. We offered them a gift, they offered us bananas, oranges, and coconuts, and they prayed for us and poured libations on a tree. It was fun to visit with the village. We spent the afternoon swimming in the ocean and relaxing on the beach! We have a two days left of our internships and home stays and then we are in the Volta Region for a couple days before leaving on Saturday. This week will fly by!