Quote of the day: “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find fault even in Paradise. Love your life.” – Henry David Thoreau
Journal by: Sarah Andersen
Today was a rather uneventful day. Unfortunately, I was still having some GI trouble, but now I was coming down with a cold as well. My mother and I woke up and had breakfast and then just relaxed in our room. At around 12:00 we took a taxi to the Volta Hotel so we could get access to the internet. This time the hotel was filled with guests. Apparently, there was some sort of conference going on at the hotel so the restaurant was filled with conference attendees and other guests staying at the hotel. We ate lunch there. My mother had a Ghanaian meal of Red Red with fried plantains and I had sautéed shrimp with onions and peppers in a garlic sauce served with West African-style fried rice. The food was pretty good, but a little expensive. At around 3:45 the taxi came back to pick us up and take us back to the guesthouse. Once at the guesthouse we relaxed until about 6:15, when the rest of the group arrived from their trip to Cape Coast. We all ate dinner together and celebrated Will’s 15th birthday with ice cream from Esther. The evening also consisted of the rest of the group telling entertaining stories from their weekend excursion. Then we all retired to our rooms to get ready for another day at the school.
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