Monday May 19, 2014

Monday May 19, 2014

Today was all about teaching.  We went to the Martin Luther King Nursing School and taught around 200+ students in Adult and Infant CPR.  It was several hours of teaching and really good for the students. 

Once again, these students have great knowledge about CPR and the reasoning behind it, but many of them have never had the opportunity to practice the skill. There were several units set up around the room that allowed the students to practice on both an adult and infant mannequins.  They did really well. 

The building that we were in was like an M. C. Escher drawing—the one of a house of stairs.  They keep adding onto this building and stairs begin and end in every direction.  It is a maze of a building.  Well some of these stairs do not have railings, are rather steep, and appear in the middle of hallways.  While our group was teaching when we heard a loud bang.  A student had fallen from a set of stairs (maybe 3-4 feet) and fell to the ground hitting her head.  She was okay, but hey, the students got to see some healing work that was being taught. 

After teaching we headed to the Keneshie market.  This is a giant market—a few blocks wide—with food, textiles, basically anything you could need.  We got some machetes for the group to bring home as well as some fabric.  I love wandering through this maze of a building.  There is stuff everywhere and people are packed in.  Lisa took a really great photo of all the types of spices and rice and things being sold. 

We then went to the Accra Mall for some food and to see a movie.  I believe most of us just got pizza.  We are really missing home food.  We then saw Godzilla.  How was this movie? Trenton would say it had “flat acting…”  I would have to agree.  It was almost comical at times.  But the natives loved it, especially Richard. 

Walking out to our bus it was sprinkling then in no time there was this torrential downpour accompanied by very strong winds.  It was incredible.  The night sky was lit up by huge streaks of lightening that cut across in long horizontal lines.  It was incredible.  As we go closer to our guest house we could see the wind had torn branches from trees, signs from billboards, and scattered the endless amounts of trash all throughout the streets. The storm was amazing.  I have never seen the sky light up that way.