Village People

You know that feeling of total frustration and anger at a faceless, unreachable entity that will never know the full extent of your wrath only because you will never find the person who is ultimately to blame? If you dont, you have never flown Delta from Atlanta to Accra. If you do, you must, like me, have assumed that when you check your bags straight through from Atlanta to Accra it means they arrive with you. Silly? yeah. Stupid? probably. Because, according to Delta checking your bags straight through means they arrive, at the earliest, two days later. Read the fine print people. You would think i would get used to this, but no. Delta's unfailing and obnoxiously consistent tendency to lose our bags actually surprises me every time. Call me stupidly optimistic.

My last first day of required school was today. And it was one of the strangest, most unique first days i have ever experienced. We didnt go to classes. Didnt even see our teachers or classrooms. No books, supply lists, or schedules in sight. No, today was devoted solely to school unity-building games and activities. We were divided into villages which were made up of two people from grades 6 through 12. In our villages we got to learn everyone's names, hobbies, colors, etc. THEN we got to name our village, elect a chief, and choose a mascot. TOMORROW we get to come up with a skit in our village. The best two will be performed in front of the whole student body on friday afternoon.

I am all for school unity and getting to know kids in other grades. But walking into my french teacher's class (she was our 'village leader') and seeing "Welcome Village People" written in fun bubble letters on the board, it all became a little much. It has been an interesting few days. But the bottom line, thankfully, is that i am genuinely glad to be home in Ghana. And really, with the whole luggage thing, the Lord totally provided. we all had just enough for the next few days and the cheese, lunch meats, and chocolates came. All of which were miraculously still frozen. Laughter is so good in our house right now. I love being home.
Now this chief of the Blue Lama village needs to sleep.
please dont ask.