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Thursday, November 13, 2008

It has been a few days since I have had a pen. We have had a fairly busy week, at least compared to last week. We are currently evaluating the night hike guides. There are two of them (and we love both of them) so we went on mock tours with them, then on real tours to see if they act any different. Then we quizzed them on their knowledge of turtles and of the tour.

Yesterday we also had a Wildlife Club meeting at the lodge. The children showed up in large groups. We separated them into teams and had them build the most realistic turtle they could in the sand. There were some excellent sand turtles but they finished the task too quickly for our liking and were easily distracted by the guests at the lodge, especially when a football game broke out on the beach. We also tried to prepare them for the excursion next week and warned them that being pushy, disobedient brats would land them back on the bus. Hopefully it sacred them into behaving for us next week on our trip to Kakum. We will have some of their teachers with us to keep them in line though so I'm sure it'll work out.

On Tuesday we had to go into the village to get the shirt sizes of all 60 of the children in the club and manged to create some chaos in the process. The younger school children not in the club followed us from classroom to classroom at all three schools. They started tugging at the shirts I was holding if I didn't keep them hidden outside the classrooms. On the way back through town, once our work was done, we still had a small entourage of children. One of them I am hoping to take home with me. I couldn't get his name as there is a bit of a language barrier, but he is six years old and very small with dark skin and a beautiful smile of white teeth. When I first noticed his gorgeous head covered in chalk I tried to rub it out of his soft, fuzzy hair and instantly fell in love. I also noticed the other children had drawn a sun on his forehead with a pen. He held my hand as we walked through the village and melted my heart. The children often try to grab onto you as you walk but I usually don't let them.

When Katherine and I got back, Annette informed us she was leaving in an hour. For good! I think she was homesick and seemed to be pretty miserable for the last few days so it was probably a good idea for her to move on.
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