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Hello Everyone!
It has certainly been a long time since we last blogged. We would like to apologize for that, and hopefully we can do a couple of blog posts here today, as well as make it a weekly event from now on. Things have been busy here in Ghana to say the least. School is going great and we are really into the swing of things. It is really nice to have a routine. I am going to give you a day in the life for a typical day of school for Meg and me.

Wake up: This varies depending on our crazy late nights bar hopping... oh wait. There are no bars here in Kasoa. A normal wake up time is between 6 and 6:30am. We get dressed, eat some breakfast, and head down to the school by 7ish.

School: School does not officially start until 8am. But you must remember we are in Ghana, therefore time does not matter. If the bus drops off all the kids by 7:30 then school will start at 7:31. So for the kids who walk... they just need to get here early just incase. We have students who are at school by 6:45... and those who show up late all the time.

We are in school all day until 2:45. At least the actual teaching goes on until 2:45. Because there is one bus and two trips... we have students who stay after school, therefore we must stay at school with them until around 4pm. Meg and I have worked out a nice routine where the kids can do homework, we play review games, and sometimes I like to play soccer with the older kids as Meg mothers the young ones.

During the school day... life is pretty much to the schedule. We have classe like math, science, english, phonetics, religion, spelling, technology, library, music, pe, creativity and then Ghanaian Language and French which we don't teach. So twice a week we have a "prep" time when the Ghanaian Language and French teacher come in. Meg and I have it worked out where she teaches the phonics, I teach the science and math, and then we sort of split everything else. It works out pretty well.

After school we are both exhausted. We have rosary, holy hour, and evening mass a couple of times during the week, and then we plan.

So far so good. We are enjoying ourselves and each day brings new challenges that we can't help but laugh at.