Today we started out bright and early, leaving the hotel at 7:00! We got to the Morning Star School in time to be a part of their morning assembly which was strange but nice. Nana Abina talked to us in her office afterwards about the origin of the school and she just seems like such a powerful, wonderful, uplifted, and uplifting woman. I so enjoyed hearing her speak about her passion for education and helping children. Her positivity and generosity were inspiring and I honestly just loved being around her. Likewise, all of the children at the school had huge, wonderful aspirations and I loved that. I seem to be encountering so much optimism here, regardless of people's situations and I think that's so beautiful.
It was so fun to just sing songs and dance around with them, and I was so surprised at how happy that made them. I was also shocked at how grateful and excited the kids were over things that to me seemed so minor - a visit, playing soccer, being given a simple pen - they loved at all and that just completely blew my mind and made me question my own life. Because it's not that I'm ungrateful, I just would love to have that same over the moon excitement for the simplest things in life. I think that's an excellent way to live and probably the largest lesson that I took home from this experience.
After the school experience we headed to Cuppa Cappuccino .....
That evening we had our first experince shopping in Osu and being surronded by street peddlers. It was kind of overwhelming but really amazing. I ended up getting suckered into a name bracelet, but that was okay because I kind of wanted one anyway. Then I tried my hand at bartering for the first time and got a really pretty fabric wallet from another guy selling. They were all really persistent, pretty much trying to force you into taking their products and it took about five minutes of saying "No, thank you" to finally get this one guy to stop trying to sell me a necklace. I'll say one thing, I should definitely be able to get better at saying no during this trip. That has always been difficult for me.
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