"...The children saw us coming from a mile away when we finally made our way from the Sama/ Crystal Palms Hotel to The Center. Truth be told, earlier thar day and even now as I write I felt a heaviness of heart that was and still feels unsettling. Yesterday monring, though it could easily be attributed to Malerone, my malaria medicine. Nevertheless, I'm also sure it could also be in a part a desire to discover this city, get to know the real Accra, find out what it's really made of. Recently, what's come to mind is more and more a desire to just go out and explore what this world has to offer and how I can help it...I hear kids laughing over the rigid wall. Traffic and horns sound off in a distant background and a comfortable breeze flows in, there's not a cloud in the sky.
My energy was on at yesterday's VBS, the Lord must have made a way because God knows I was tired. I played with almost 50 kids they say with two parachutes and a bucnh of balls to balance. I was on the brink of losing my voice but it was worth it. All they had to do was hold on to the colorful sheet and they were off...shaking and vibrating a stormy parachute that looked like it was about to fly away. With only a little insistence, did all the kids have a ball, and with a little discipline by one of the other members of my troops, we were finally able to get all the kids under control. Pardon the pun, but what a ball they had...
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