The Talk (6/8)

So last night we got "the talk". The little boys were sent to one area and the little girls to another, and we had a session where we could talk about our naughty parts in ghana without blushing. Every guy in our group was asking very generic PC questions so I decided to just be "that guy" and ask what a lot of my friends were thinking... "soooo... if we have a girl over, who's not just a friend, and we're not married, am I gonna be crucified?" Good news, I'm not gonna be jim carrey at the end of Ace Ventura, When Nature Calls

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I woke up at 6am this morning to hand wash my clothes out of a bucket for the firs time in my life. IT was surprisingly exhausting. All this ultimate frisbee every day created a lot of sweaty clothes and thanks to boredom waiting for a meeting to start, some serious grass stains on my white ISE polo (represent!) and my only pair of khakis. The khakis kicked my ass and I straight up gave up on the polo.. (note to self, no more white in ghana). The workout shirts were lucky to get a dunk and a slight agitation in the water, because one hour later of washing, I was beyond done with this chore....

....at 3PM I came to check on my drying laundry outside in the sun and found a bird had crapped on my UF shirt.

I'm never doing my own laundry again. I'll gladly pay a neighbor. Although the situation was slightly hilarious. Fuck. Seriously.

After more meetings we rushed to get cleaned off and we went to see the US ambassador to Ghana. He was nice enough to host us at his house to congratulate us on the start of our training. There was an open bar, I had 1 glass of wine and drank fanta all night (FML and this TB medicine..) The ambassador much to my surprise was extremely approachable and friendly. His closing speech really hit home. He said:

"Our president, VP and former speaker of the house here in Ghana, as well as many other high ranking elected officials have had PC teachers. And most of them still remember that volunteer's name, almost 50 years later. That's how much of an impact you all have. All of you, especially the teachers, will be impacting people's lives in a way that you may never again do. Try and remember that every day, on the great ones and the bad ones. You are changing lives in a way you will probably never fully understand."

Let's get started.
-G