FRIDAY

Had to go into the office in the morning since I have run out of money and need to make a trip back to Barclay’s bank. It was probably not the best day to be walking around Cape Coast since has been down pouring since we got up. The wet doesn’t bother me that much though. If my hair gets wet it just gets curlier. When we walked past ‘chillin chillin’ she noticed that me and Katie didn’t have umbrellas and wouldn’t let us leave her stand till we excepted her umbrellas she had. She’s such a lovely lady. Barkleys wasn’t that busy so the line went fast. It would have been shorter but people were sitting down out of line so it got a bit confusing who was next and I got skipped a few times. After Barkley’s we went to the shopping market to get the essentials for the weekend and headed back to the office.

It was still raining when we got back and when we tried to give Chillin her umbrellas she wouldn’t take them from us and said to keep them till the rain stopped. Her stand is literally right across the street and we wouldn’t have really gotten that wet without them but she insisted. Love Chillin Chillin. Katie and I were ready to get back to the house so we left the office right away to get a taxi home. We gave back the umbrellas on our way out and headed back to the house.

The rest of the day I worked on getting the softies done. With them out of the way Katie and I started patterning one of the designs that the US had given the OK to sample. We worked on it till the rest of the gang got back which was the end of the work day.
I didn’t really want to go at this point since I was tired and kind of in a mood but we had told the English group that we would go to their Stumble Inn and have a beach party and dinner. The people that we have been hanging out with run the organization and constructed the building that we stayed in. It is a resort but it is also where their short term volunteers stay. So if you are staying less than six weeks they stay there otherwise they stay in one of the villages. Its located on the opposite side of Elmina so we had to give Peter (Marias taxi driver who will allow Pepo to join) to come and pick us up and drive us over. Somehow we managed to fit seven obrunis, Peter and Pepo into one taxi. Needless to say no one was comfy and the back roads we had to take to get to the Stumble Inn were not so forgiving.

They had a family style dinner with meat kabobs rice and salad. Fortunately they were able to make me a veggie kebob which was delicious. They served it with a spicy ground nut crunchy dip which is the same stuff that the sausages are served with at the C Spot. I’ve wanted to try it for a while no so I’m glad I did. I’m hoping to find some in bulk that I can take back home with me; I think a lot of you will enjoy it. After dinner we all stayed up till real late playing card/drinking games. Those kids really love their Cardinal and Star. The night ended with a bonfire and a dance party on the tables.