Coffee Morning

Hey thanks to anyone and everyone who came to our coffee morning! It was a huge success and we raised over £400!!!!!!! We plan to use this money to buy supplies such as pens and pencils for the children to use in the school. Thanks to everyone for all there support!

Preparation!

I got inspired to start a blog after watching the film Julie and Julia, which by the way is a really good film. Julie decides she will set herself the task of cooking every recipe from Mastering Th Art Of French Cooking by Julia Child in one year. She decides to keep an on line blog of her (very stressful) experience. Anyway I thought I should make a record of my on coming adventure to Ghana in just over a months time. What is this so called adventure you may wonder. Obviously something to do with Ghana- hence the title! I will be traveling to Ghana with a group of 10 volunteers (including my mum), from the UK to teach in a primary school in a village located around 50km from Kumasi the capital city of the region Ashanti. The group is made up of trained primary and secondary school teachers and two teenagers (me and one other). The trip is being sorted out through the charity Ashanti Development (www.ashantidevelopment.org). To prepare for this trip I, like many other volunteer workers and holiday makers, have had to put up with a grand total of 7 (!!!) jags. Not something I would ever want to go through again. I mean how many illnesses can be at rick at catching in one country? The answer, I have discovered, is an awful lot. 

Protection is not the only type of preparation me and mum have been taking.  Raising money to buy equipment for the very limited school is another thing we have been focusing on. This weekend we are having a coffee morning at our local church hall which we hope will raise a lot of money for the school.