After chapel, my friend Emma came up to me with one of her friends. She gave me a bracelet and put three hair clips in my hair as a thank you from our conversation yesterday. It almost made me tear up. 
Everything was so neat to look at. Soon, Ivan came to get me and we walked to the ocean, where the rest of the group was. Ali is still trying to get me to buy a painting. I ran into the ocean. It felt amazing. It was time to go home, and Ali was not coming down on his price. As he saw the group getting into the van, he finally met me at a decent price, 5 more Cedi's than I had previously paid, but I had a good relationship with the guy, so I thought I would be nice. Love my painting though!! 
For primary chapel, we did Jesus walks on the water. The kids loved getting an idea of what it must've been like to be Peter and physically walk on water, become afraid, begin to sink, and be saved by Christ. Each day at chapel we sing their favorite song, Joy! It's an awesome feeling when the kids ask if we are going to sing it again or when you hear it in the hallways. What a Joy!
Breakfast was good, but very interesting. We had a hard boiled egg toasted sandwich (which was fabulous) and some kind of porridge. Ivan didn't even know what it is or what it was made from. The texture is like a purée, but tastes like Cheerios. Odd I know, but I thought it was quite delicious with some sugar added into it.
For crafts today, we got to go see the nursery kids! The first class, Jasmine Blue, was full of kids ages 2-3ish. They were so energetic and loved having us do their craft with them and sing songs with them. The second class, Jasmine Pink, was children about 18-24months. They were the sweetest things ever. They were extremely shy around us at first, but after the craft and when we started playing with them, they didn't want us to leave. One girl fell asleep in Alicia's arms, and another in mine. They were soo tired, poor things. I didn't want to leave them.
For lunch, we had small pieces of fried fish and a dish called red red, which is beans that you eat with fried plantains. So far, red red is my favorite Ghanian dish and my favorite way to eat fried plantains. After lunch, we had some time before our next class, so we laid down on the floor and took a well deserved 20 minute nap. It was fabulous.
For 2nd grade craft, we had blue pieces of paper that the students could decorate with glitter glue to make water. We had them decorate Popsicle sticks with paper on them. One side was a picture of Jesus, and the other side was a picture of themselves. Through a slit in the blue paper, Jesus could walk on he water. The kids loved making this, especially the glitter glue. Some of them have never seen it before. We did this craft with P 2 sparrows and falcons. The first class was total chaos, while the other was so well behaved. The best behaved class we've seen in primary yet.
On the way home, Ivan and Jennifer ask us if we would like a drum lesson from their family friend. Umm... Yes please!! We got home to unload, then got back in the van to take off to another market. This market is different than the other one. As soon as you step out of the van, somebody is instantly by your side trying to sell you something and begin a relationship with you. Relationships are a big thing here, and much more important in the market (you can usually get a better deal). While our group followed Ivan and his friend, Francis, to his drum shop, each of us had somebody walking and talking with us. The shop was one of the coolest shops I've seen (definitley not temperature wise, it was hot in there!). The drums were everywhere and all of Francis' friends who played came in with us. They really enjoyed us talking with them. After we got there, however, we find out that there is a festival going on in inner city Accra, and loud music is not allowed. If officials hear people making loud music, they will come and confiscate the instruments. It's a pretty big deal. We aren't able to get another lesson in before we leave, because the festival continues for another 16 days. Bummer. But the shops were awesome to look at. I had a friend by my side the whole time, his name is Ali. He had me look at painting after painting. I was really interested in them, but after already buying some at an extremely amazing price, I didn't want to spend more than what I had already paid. I told him I would look at his shop. He showd me his shop and some of his friends shops.
It's been a long day. Time to get clean and go to bed!
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