Ghanaian Adventures

Kirsten and I began all of our orientation activities yesterday.  This week we are focusing on that and then next week we begin training on Tuesday.  We will teach every other week.  On the weeks we are not teaching they will be teaching the Career Development Workshop at the ERC.  Today Kirsten and I sat in on the Career workshop and well... it made me grateful for that week of training in Salt Lake.  It also helped me to learn a lot about some cultural things here in Ghana.

This week the Manager, Atobora, is out of town on vacation so the Assistant Manager, Alex, is helping us to get all settled in at the Center.  Yesterday morning he gave as a 2 hour tutorial on Ghanaian history and culture.  It was very helpful in knowing some of the best ways to help the workshop participants to learn and grow.

The Center is located on the ground floor of the stake center that is just next to the Accra Ghana Temple.  On the other side of the temple there is another building that houses the offices for the Africa West Area.  Every time we go in there we get somewhat lost but we also find the nicest and most interesting people to help us find our way.  They have also helped us with many other things.  The new Area Controller and his wife arrived the same day as us.  They live in the building just across the parking lot from us so we have been able to get rides into the office with him.

Yesterday after meeting with the Area Welfare Director we walked outside to run some errands and we saw this little treasure in the parking lot.  Apparently FedEx does things a little differently here in Ghana.  Motorcycles are allowed to just go between cars rather than waiting in traffic so I'm sure the motorcycle method is much more efficient.

Today our new friend Rebecca took us on a walking tour of some of the areas near the temple.  She took us to this shopping area called Osu.  They sell everything you could ever want that says Ghana on it.  Of course everyone tried selling to us because we are white.  We did buy coconuts and drank the milk.  Then we went to this awesome Ghanaian restaurant.

This is a picture of Kirsten and I at the end of the our first real Ghanaian meal.  I meant to get a picture before we started eating but once I took the first bite I forgot because it was so good.  This dish is called red-red.  It's fried plantains, fried chicken, and some spicy beans.  It was so delicious!

Rebecca is taking us on another adventure tomorrow and I can't wait!  This is surely the most fun orientation I have ever participated in.