Day 4 - In School...

Thursday 23 June

This morning gave a good insight into Rachel and Claire's study habits.

Rachel came to breakfast with sheets of paper in her hand saying cool as a breeze that this is my maths homework and I haven't got it finished.

The others helped her to put some shape on it and off she toddled pretending it was all her own work.

Claire got into the car with the text book in hand and crammed for her English test trying to ingest the definitions for "personification, irony and oxymoron". In general the girls are quite in awe of the level of teaching and learning, some of the curriculum is familiar but some is at a higher level or taught differently.

Myself and Eileen visited the 1st year classes and talked to them about Ireland and our school system. There is great interest in our history and our school rules with questions like do we allow mobile phones and what kinds of punishment do we use. .

At the end of the school day 4 of the teachers gave of their time to give us a talk on Ghanaian culture and customs. We enjoyed this very much.It was good to hear about the Chief of the region as we have been invited to visit the local Chief tomorrow morning.

At 4pm we returned to the school for the sports session. This included trying out the traditional games which involved much clapping and dancing. Seamount girls took on Notre Dame in a friendly Ireland v Ghana basketball match and did Mr Cuddy and Ms Feehily proud. The final score did not reflect effort in the blistering heat and after consuming about a gallen of water each they were ready for more,

Staff night out

A very pleasant evening was enjoyed by all hosted by Monsignor on behalf of Bishop Matthew who is in Germany at present and included the school staff.We thanked the Monsignor and the Diocese for allowing this project to happen and conveyed the good wishes of our Board of Management and warm greetings from Bishop Martin. Again, our girls did us proud and produced the instruments and sang and danced to the utter delight of all present. Even our 2 drivers tried to copy some of Lucy's nimble footwork.They are now all tucked up in bed and are very aware that tomorrow brings with it their last day in school. I think i'll be bringing the tissues.