Ammon:
Had some people come to the house and played and gave them a Lego set (if ur wondering it was a small 3-in-1 truck/plane/boat) and we bought pizza, of which they had never had before. So that was kinda cool.
LaReita:
Dave utilized the strong Starlink satellite internet to get more work done. In the morning I did a Zoom training call for our FRC managers in other countries. It was some basics of understanding trauma responses. Even though this is in our common vernacular today, for Africans they have never heard of the “Fight, Flight, Freeze” response and other basic psychology stuff. My presentation’s title: “Why do I do that? Understanding the mind-body connection.”
It was Ghana’s National Founder’s Day (the first Ghana president), so no school. I invited Faustina’s family to come to the house to talk, play and eat pizza. Ammon got 2 small Lego sets in Dubai to give to some kids. This was the perfect opportunity to give and build it with their family. We had also got some of those fun hand helicopters at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and we gave them a few.
They also had never had pizza before, so we ordered pizza that is the closest to American sytle. Close, but not quite. It was actually more Ghana-style because the restaurant sprinkled on a lot of red pepper!
After a couple of hours of visiting they went home. We packed up and got an Uber to the Kumasi airport to return to Accra. Getting an Uber in Ghana is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. A newer car leased directly from Uber, or a converted taxi that bottoms out frequently when carrying 2 big Americans over the speed bumps.