The past couple of days have been awesome! on saturday we took a trip to a monkey sanctuary in the Eastern region of ghana. The monkeys were so cute! ew all had bananas to feed them and we just held them out.They were picky though. They only took the bananas that were half peeled. they liked the act of peeling them themselves. They'd grab them right out of our hands, it was cute. I promise i'll bring pictures but it was raining today and I didn't wanna risk gettingmy card wet...
The next day we went to Wli falls. I think that has got to be one of the prettiest places in the world hands down! After a 45 minute easy walk, we got into this clearing. The waterfall is the tallest in West Africa. Luckily we all wore our bathing suits. The water was freezing cold but we got used to it. We were able to actually get underneath the waterfall. It was AMAZING! Now don't be fooled. it kinda hurts. That much water falling that far can make ur skin kind of sore but it was really invigorating. It was a little creepy though cause there was kind of a bat cave a couple of hundred feet up. There were literally thousands of bats circling around our heads as we were frolicking in the water : ). Actually some guy found a dead one. a bit grotesque actually...Anyway, the water fall was definatley one of my highlights of the semester.
To top off those couple of days, we had a Sader. For those of you who don't know what it is. It's basically the passover dinner. Jewish people have this dinner to acknowledge the things that God did for them during and after their time in Egypt. There is a lot of symbolism involved in the process. Actually the the Lord's Supper was a Sader dinner. Anyway, we did it at the CIEE house. The girls who put it together worked their butts off! There wasn't any power so we had it out side, they put 4 tables together in a straight line and had candles covering it. Because there wasn't much room we were sitting like 2 to a chair (there were about 30 of us). It was actually quite amazing. It felt like a big family dinner. It was also cool because a lot of the sader focused around social justice and there is a lot of discussion involved. It was nice because some of the girls who put it together had never been apart from their families during Passover. We've pretty much become a family here so i think our Sader dinner made it a little less sad. If anyone ever gtes the opportunity to go to one, i totally suggest it!
Anyway, i gotta run but i love you all!!!!
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