Building a Community Center in Ghana

So we took out a thermometer on the worksite Friday and the mercury rose to the VERY top at 120 degrees! True, the temp was taken in direct sunlight... but, then again, we work in direct sunlight. Later, we wraped the thermometer in a tissue and the temp topped out around 103 degrees.

Crazy.

Hagar is a woman from Abrafo-Odumasi, about 52ish years old. She works as a guide 5-6 days a week at Kakrum National Park (with the canopy walk) and farms on Mondays (her day off). Hagar is the original link between Miami and Abrafo-Odumasi and the root to the story about how the university started building here.

Today we celebrated and danced with the village people of Abrafo-Odumasi and checked out the site where we'll be building a classroom that will eventually be equipted computers. It is HOT and right in the sun.... awesome. we will all be sporting nice farmers' tans/ burns.

After the celebration, we treked to Kakrum National Park and mastered the canopy walk - 7 rope bridges + 6 treetop resting places. it goes from 11 meters high to just over 40 meeters high... it was pretty sweet. i'm outta time on the comp. so more to come... if this website feels like posting.

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