Dani Basket
Woven experiences, knowledge, opinions and thoughts that constitute me :)
Friday 25 July 2014
National Theatre Day 2
National Theatre Day 1
Craft Market and Accra Mall
Accra Market, W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre & Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Volunteering Day 5, Road Trip & Fete Night
Today was a sad day for me as it was the last day of teaching my P2 class. Gabriel and I taught them I.C.T. and had planned to present them with eats and drinks. Unfortunately by the time we were ready to do that, we had to leave. We did not even get a chance to see the students, after their break, to tell them farewell. We thanked the teacher Mr. Michael for what he would have taught us, gave him tokens of our appreciation and asked him to give the students the snacks on our behalf.
We took a long road trip to the Methodist University College Ghana hostel to spend the weekend in Accra. During the journey we sang songs which bought vybz and laughter into the journey. The college hostel had a lot of space with great views of Accra. It was amazing and I took it all in, the thousands of building lights, the trees and the air.
It was also fete night :D and we quickly got ready to go to the DND night club. The club was popping as we all danced and enjoyed the music. The DJ was impressed with our energy so he gave us a 'shout-out' and music cds with his music.
Friday 18 July 2014
Volunteering Day 4, Journeys & Model African Diaspora
The students of the P2 class I thought yesterday were playing the 'in the river, on the bank' game during their break. I felt happy as I saw them and glad to know that they learnt something from me and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). They also remembered my name and what I taught them yesterday. It's a joy teaching them and I have learnt many teaching skills from Mr. Michael.
In the session with Dr. Michael we explored our life's journey, from birth to present. Some of us had relations in different countries along with our home country. This seems to be another common phenomenon some of us share in the african diaspora. Drew's pastorial group focused on the journey in the past, present and future. I think everyone should definitely have an idea of where they would like to be in the future, where they are now and where they came from.
We also made a model to show how we would strengthen the african diaspora. One group had a neatly built umbrella while another group had a detailed 3D map. Moe's group (my group) had an egg which showed the birth of the new african diaspora. Balloons filled with party streamers and in the colours of my group life's journey countries' flag were attached to the egg and then burst to illustrate the realization and sharing of our cultural practices with each other. The balloons were burst by Share Think and Act cic in the form of a toothpick with a yellow puff as this organization helped us in accepting and appreciating the african diaspora. A yellow puff was used as yellow is the organization's colour.
Wednesday 16 July 2014
Volunteering Day 3 and Tawala Beach :)
Today Gabriel, Keivaugh, Samantha, Ben, Regan and I worked with the P2 class. Keivaugh taught Maths and we helped with the marking of the Math problems. The students said recitations about Ghana and black women. The recitations were very informative as they had factual information about Ghana and they also gave encouragement for black women to love and cherish their chocolate complexion, rather than bleaching it to become 'fair' like white women. I taught the students a common game in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) called 'in the river, on the bank'. They learnt it quickly and were laughing at each other as they played.
The session with Dr. Michael involved the discussion of each country's traditional practices as they relate to birth and pregnancy, dreams, leaving the family home and funerals. With funerals for example, we all view the body of the deceased before its burial, however Ghanians view the body at the deceased home and at home (T&T) the body is viewed at a church.
The Tawala beach party was relaxing and I felt as though I was at home, as I danced to songs that are well known in T&T. Plus I got to ride a horse which was pretty cool.
Keivaugh and I teaching the P2 class