yay the internet is working today! This is the third time since I last wrote that we have trekked to HoHoe. Once the internet was broken and couldn't load anything, once the cafe was shut and today it is finally open and working!! Things have changed a bit here as we've got more used to it. Mike and I have both been pretty ill and I can confirm that having diorreah and having to go in a hole that is filled with millions of flies is pretty awful. I am dreaming of flushing toilets.
Last week we went with Carla and Sophia - two of the volunteers, and some of the older boys from the orphanage to Wli waterfalls, which is a 200m waterfall up in the mountains near us. It was amazing!! So so lovely and we got to swim in the water and get all of the ingrained dirt off us. There were also hundereds of bats which flew around near the top. And after we went and stayed in a hotel!! oh it was so good we left everyone else and went to the Waterfall Lodge nearby and stayed in a chalet with a toilet and a shower and a fan and a proper bed! There was a big veranda with amazing views over all of the mountains and it was just lovely. It was good to get away from the orphanage as well as we are there all of the time and it can get a bit intense. Most of the children are still really nice - although it's a lie that all African children love school and just want to learn, they are just like English kids and sometimes they are nice and sometimes they are not so much! There has been some tensions between the volunteers and the older boys and the Pastor who owns the orphanage and it's all got a bit unpleasant so we're just trying to keep a low profile at the moment and not get involved. Unfortunately this means we have to go to church every week so as not to annoy anyone and that is pretty bad. The pastor gets really angry and yells about how lazy all of the children are - they get up at 5 everyday and spent the whole time at his beck and call fetching water and looking after the younger children, often missing school to do this. Every now and then they will go and play football or run around but they're kids!! Then he spouts some rubbish about Jewish people or how evolution is a lie. The other day he proved that Noah's ark happened by saying that 'all animals hear the language of the country they are from. Noah just went out into the jungle and called the animals and they came' he then called his pet dogs name and when he came into the church used this as proof that the whole theory was correct and unbelievers were devils. stupid man.
I'm trying to think what else we have been up to... We went to a monkey sanctuary a few weeks ago which was pretty cool and the monkeys were just wild in the trees all around us. Mike and I got to feed them bananas! We've taught a few lessons although they normally just bring me down because they are so difficult. The children are used to being caned when they misbehave and so once they know I won't cane them there are some who just constantly misbehave and disrupt the lesson. Lessons aren't really that fun as the classes ability varies widely and there are some who can already do what I'm teaching and then some who can't understand what I'm saying! Think it will be better when we're in Ho as we're going to be working in a nursery which is much more my level!
We're leaving Volta Home to stay in Ho next Saturday. As it's a town I will hopefully have better access to the internet and updates will be a bit more frequent and detailed. xx
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