A little bit about the school! :)

Hellu!

 So, I’m in Ghana! But what am I going to do here? 

 I’m going to volunteer at the Promiseland International School, which is a 25-minute-walk away from the volunteer house. It is a private, Christian school, so the kids wear uniforms, which are pink dresses for the girls and pink shirts with brown shorts for the boys. The parents pay for their kids to go to school, so it’s a fairly good school and the kids who go there are middle class. I think there are 70-odd students, spread out over 6 years. The kids get lunch at school, which is cooked by two ‘’Big mamas’’ sitting in a little alley behind one of the buildings. The food is pretty good though! I’ve found out that as long I don’t think about the germs I’m fine. 

 Me and an English girl called Britt are volunteering as teachers at the school and we start properly tomorrow. I spend Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week at the school too, but I just played with the kids and told them about Norway and my life back home. They are ADORABLE. They call me ‘’Madame Marieke’’ and are pretty respectful, but it’s just that the school is build in such a way that everybody can hear each other so the kids are kind of easily distracted. I haven’t really gotten any pictures of the school yet, because the kids go CRAZY when you even take your camera out of your bag, but maybe tomorrow I’ll be able to take some pictures without the little monkeys jumping in the frame. 

 For now: Here’s a short video I made when I bought my camera to school on Thursday!

 

Woohoo!