Dec. 21

Dec 21

We started the day in Ho at 8:30, with breakfast of egg, toast, thick oatmeal with the option of condense milk, orange slices(which had green peel) pineapple, baked beans, and cooked vegatables. Chris passed out two numbers from a hat to each of us then Caroline had us pick our secret santa names from her own hat. Chris told us what our numbers meant, they were for our scavenger hunt. Then Chris counted us off for the groups to go to the hunt. 

  We then walked to the market. Hunting for our items. I only found the slingshot, and some fabric, both a 2yd to sleep and 4yd. ( I would later buy another 2yd) My group had some problems finding some items, but everyone got at least one of their scavenger items. Change was hard to come by or have made.

Upon returning from the market a moment was taken to show the spoils and talk quickly about our experience(s). We all showed off our 2yd or other cloths, we have not yet had a picture of all of them together but a sample.

We then went to lunch at White house, which was a short bus ride away, we had the options of plain, fried, or jollof rice the later was a mix of rice and a tomato stew, the plain rice was acompanied with cooked vegetables, and chicken.

Then we took some time to look around the area and some did some shopping a tourist shop which sold mostly wooden crafts, some carved animals, and the matron of the shop offered some bracelets to those there. Back onto the bus, then to Batik. A training shop for a local craft of batik, tie and dye, as well as screen printing. We got a talk through and some examples of the process. Many of us bought some of their prints or cloths, this is where I bought the purple, white and black cloth. Then back to the hotel where we have so far take a dip in the pool and ordered a few stars (pronounced Sta) and Castle (cas-tel) where I finish my blog post looking forward to dinner of more jollof, red red, fried chicken, and tilapia.

The pitied Nikolai

We woke up, had breakfast, drew numbers and secret Santa names. The numbers were for a scavenger hunt that we had to find in the market by our hotel. The market was only a short walk from the hotel, and the whole way there all I could focus on was the fact that we were walking next to an open sewer… The sewer system here is just these open pits all along the sides of the roads that people throw trash in and go to the bathroom in, which takes some getting used to. Even at 9 in the morning there were so many people in the market. There was so much going on that I feel like I missed half of it. People yelling at us from all directions and so many different smells. A few steps in it smelled like fish, and then a few steps later it would smell like candy. It was pretty cool all in all. I bought a soccer ball for my scavenger hunt item, and then some cloth to make into a skirt. After the market we went for lunch at a place not too far from the hotel. We had fried chicken and rice. After that we went to a tye and dye place, and learned all of their methods and styles and training. It was interesting because we tried it in class, but came nowhere near their skill. After that we came back to the hotel pool and got to know each other and just hungout before dinner. I'm looking forward to the bead markers tomorrow.

 Emily #13^th