Last blog from UniBreak student Rachel in Ghana

So this weekend we all headed to the Eastern Region for our last weekend in Ghana! We had to catch three trotro's to get to Alburi, but we got there at last!

We went straight to Pete's Pizza, which according to our trusty Bradt Guide, has delicious pizza- it was right, very good pizza! We then went to Bob Marley's studio, that his wife Rita Marley had build in his honor after he died, in Alburi where he was born. Unfortunately it has burnt down previously and we got only look at the outside, but it was still interesting. We also went to the Botanical gardens whilst in Alburi, which was really interesting and got lots of great photos here. After all this we ran out of things to do in Alburi so we caught 4 (!) trotros back to cape coast (our favorite place in alllllll of Ghana!!), and once again enjoyed swimming, hammocking and stocked up on some good books from the english bookstore there. Great relaxing last weekend in Ghana.

We were planning on going to the orphange for Monday and Tuesday but alas Bianca was ill on Monday, we think from some food we ate,- was bound to happen at some stage!! But on Tuesday we managed to go into the orphange. This was a really great experience, and we were really glad that we got to see both the clinic and the orphange sides of things here. The orphanage is very under-resourced and it was very sad to see how many orphans there are here and how hard it must be on them. Whilst the children were in class, there was lots of clothes hand-washing... we appreciate our washing machines SO much now! and dishes washing. During break times it was really fun to play with the kids though and we got some great pictures of us volunteers with the kids. We also got to put the youngest children tied to our backs like the women carry their children here, it was actually really comfy!!

We left our families on Wednesday morning, which was very sad, but we promised to keep in touch and send our photos over to them. It was hard to say goodbye to these families who have looked after us so well for the past month! Well, this is the end of our time in Ghana, and we have all agreed that it was the best way ever to spend our uni holidays and we are so glad that we all came and made a difference here in such a beautiful country.

Well, time to fly now, we can wait to see you all soon!!!