Ross Pickett

Blog Post- Ross Pickett
June 3, 2013

This week went very well for the Ghana team.  Jamie and I are teaching a class in Sankubenase every Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.  We have had very consistent attendance so far.  On Tuesday we taught a lesson in Phase 1 about idea generation.  Many of the students had not participated in an activity like brainstorming before so it was fun to watch the class develop some new ideas for businesses in their village.  At the end of class we told them that we would be giving out the first homework assignment and we were not sure how they would react.  We came to class early on Wednesday to help anyone who were not able to complete their homework assignment but were pleasantly surprised to see that all 12 of our students had their homework ready to be turned in!  It was great to see them pro-active in this assignment.  Our Wednesday class was great and we had 4 new students attend. 

Friday was an awesome learning opportunity for the group.  We needed to travel to Koforidua to work on some things with a bank in the town.  We spent a few hours inside the bank working with many different people until we were able to finally meet with the branch manager, who was very helpful.  The learning opportunity came when we were deciding how to travel home that afternoon.  On the way to Koforidua we took a taxi to one city and then transferred to a tro-tro.  We were able to arrive in a little over 2 hours.  On the way home we found out that there is a bus that leaves town at 5 pm and takes 30 minutes longer to arrive but is half the price as the taxi/tro-tro option.  The bus ended up being delayed 1 hour and the bus ride took 3 hours.  All in all we doubled our travel time and decided it might be worth the couple extra cedis to use the taxi/tro-tro option.  We learned a great deal about traveling inside Ghana that day.