Day 22

Two things that I forgot to mention in yesterday's post: 1) when we went to the fetish priestest's house there were a bunch of little kids sitting all around us and at one point in the performance this little boy taps my hand and says to me "you are beutiful." It was so cute I could have died. 2) Also at the same event during the presentation another boy tapped my hand and asked for the time so I light up my watch to show him (it was dark out) and then he asked for my watch. I felt to bad because I can go home and buy myself another watch, it's no big deal, but I do need my watch while I am here so I can know the time. It's situations like this that make me sad becuase I want to help, but unsure of what I should do. Anyways, today was a great day! Sam, Kaitlyn, Marissa, Holly, and I all got up early today and were going to go to bead city (I forget the citys real name lol). We got a taxi that was going to drive us around all day and everything was falling into place. Then being flexable came into play. On the way to bead city, actually Somanya, the taxi broke down! Luckily it was right outside a car place and a guy came to start working on it right away. The repair was talking awhile so we were going to take another taxi, becuse we were almost there, but our taxi driver was so nice he said that he wanted to make sure we got there safe and that he wanted to complete his job. The repair took about an hour which wasn't too bad, and then we were off first to Global Mamas. The only problem is that no one could find it. Our guide book gave us one location, and each local gave us another, and the actual store was no where to be found. So after about 30 minutes trying to find this place we left that idea and changed to just going to Cedi's bead factoru. We had saw the sign a little while down the road, but the taxi man still stopped and asked for directions from some man in town. The man watned to come with us to make sure that we go to the right place. Good intention, however, having 5 people in the back of a tiny, tiny was not fun. Once we pulled up to the bead factory there were about 20 visitors who looked like they had already done the tour and were waiting to leave. Once of the people made this statement to us "there's 5 of you? I only thought there was 4!" It was so funny we were all just about dying at this point. The actual bead factory tour was awesome! It was just the 5 of us and he showed us all the steps to making the beads. After the factory tour we stopped by the gift shop and boy was I so excited! I got so many different braclets, and necklesses the shop was so cool I loved it. After the shop we decided that we wanted to go to the near by market. We were under the impression that this market would have wood carving and stuff to give as gifts. But when we got there we realized that it was just a market with food and practical everyday stuff. We decided that since we are normally made our meals in the house by the girls, but they wont be here until tomorrow, that we would make dinner ourselves. So we shopped around the market and got noodles, garlic, and bread. Our plan was to make garlic noodles and garlic bread! Yummy! After we were done shopping we left to come back to the house. After we got back Marissa, Kaitlyn, and Holly all took naps and Sam and I stayed up looking over all the beads that we got and planning out what gifts we still needed to get. We really wanted to get wood carvings to we called Connie and asked if there was any place close that we could go to. She said that her and Linda were going to go later today to one and that we could come. About 3 hours later we went and Sam and I cleaned up the place. I finished up a majority of my gifts and now all I have to get are 2 more things! (everyone get super excited!) After that we came back made dinner, which was soooooo good, and talked for a while with Connie and Linda. Overall it was a great day that made me feel more independent here in Ghana. Tomorrow we have a relaxing day to hang out and maybe work on some school work.