Wednesday the 1st

Wednesday was also lovely - Alex and i had morning seder where we learned the parsha and then more of massechet kiddushin.

I then went home while Alex joined bracha in town doing administrative things for the guesthouse to be set up. I ate my chocolate covered peanuts and read my book, 'beyond the horizon,' another ghanaian novel this time about a village girl in an abusive marriage who ends up a prostitute in germany. It was a great story even if the writing wasn't of the highest quality. I then washed pretty much every item of clothing i own including my handkerchiefs (yeah, i bought one to wipe up the buckets of sweat coming from my face in ghana). That took an hour and by the end i was totally exhausted. So i grabbed a frozen water sachet and sat in the sun and finished my book.

At some stage bracha came home and brought a late lunch of kinkey and soft drinks. We then prepped for the evenings class with the kids. We revised the songs and the hebrew we'd learnt yesterday and then went on to teach the story of chana and the beginning of the amidah. We then taught a few more songs and called it a day. Tonight (Thursday) we are going to teach them the laws of shabbat.

After class brach n i went back to Alex's and watched ghana play against guinea. It was a 1:1 draw but b/c of the other games that meant that ghana continues to the next round while guinea drops out.

Then it was home time and bed time. i've started reading 'a portrait of a lady' on brach's kindle. We also taught rachel to play solitaire and to use paint on my laptop. Of course the first drawing she did was of moses floating down the river with pharoah's daughter watching him. Rachel is kickass.

It's particularly satisfying to walk around the village and hear the kids singing the shema or `am yisrael chai. Being in the village has been the most awesome Jewish education experience of my life. If i though ujeb was important work this is a whole new level. Moreover what i've learnt about judaism has in some ways totally changed the way i relate to so much of it. But i will save these revelations for their own post.

And for now, that is all. Cheers!