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So i swam under a waterfall

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yes. I did it. It didnt hurt… it just felt like a big bucket of water being dumped on my head… So on saturday we went to a festival with the students and it was SO fun! Its called the Hmowa festival. Its for the GA people of the GA district… what they do is its a praise festival for being thankful for food… like there thanksgiving. The chief of the village goes around the district and sprinkles food on the group saying thank you to the ground for giving them food to eat when there was a famine. So what people do is follow the music and the chief sprinkling food and go all over town… And then there is a big ceremony where the chief comes out on a wooden lion suspended by people underneath in the air and they all dance and sing and celebrate. Theres really nothing like it! Its amazing! Also on sunday we went on tour of the city with the students and we went to this foundation that helps homeless kids and they are the happiest kids you have ever meet! They would ask me how old i was and freak out because i would be the same age as them and they thought they would have a shot with me haha! And i wear rings so they were asking if i was married… i said nope not yet… not for a looonnngggg time! And they got exited haha. So yeah my weekend was pretty good! yeah i know you are all saying well that took forever to post a new one! well i went on a 2 day retreat (witch went great!) about african christianity and i was busy! sorry about that!
Love you all
Julia

Up bright and early

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This morning we went out to breakfast with the students and i think that some of them are struggling with the homesick thing. It happens. Today they have a tour of the city and of campus plus orientation. There all pretty tired except for one girl. Shes very energized. Well they get there IDs today and then we really start our adventure. Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my post! And for all my fans and family and friends. Love you all
Julia

Now it really starts

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Since the students got here today pretty soon we will be going on trips and walking in markets and being busier than we can imagine. We just has a wonderful dinner with the students and tomorrow is orientation and on Sunday we go to the Medina market witch should be fun because i haven’t been to an actual market yet and im exited. On Wednesday we leave to day trip to ahhh where is it! i cant think right now… sorry. i will get back to you on that but we will be gone for about 2 days and its our first real trip. My brothers birthday was on wednesday and we went to Cape coast to celebrate and we had a good day. Well i should get some rest. I stayed up too late last night finishing the Hunger Games and im scared that tonight i will do the same. If you havent read them than you should. There great. Love you all
Julia

Students

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So today the students come and i am so exited! On Wednesday we went to Cape Coast and saw crocodiles and made a reservation at a awesome hotel with croc ponds! I miss home a lot but im doing better than i was. I start school next week so that i can have a bit of vacation time too. One of the students is teaching me pre algebra. That will be fun! haha. I saw my sister on skype last weekend and that really made me very happy. I cant wait to see her again this weekend. Its kinda weird to thing that im over sees and a millions and million of miles apart. We have been talking about all of the trips were taking and it feels like we are going to be pretty busy. The most impressive thing i have seen so far is watching a women carry a refrigerator on her head like it weighed 10 pounds. I read the Hunger Games and i loved it more than anything in a long time. I immediately started the next one even though it was already 11 at night and we had to get up early but i didn’t care. So i got Mrs. Koop for my homeroom class and it has some fun people in it so kinda looking forward to that. I miss my tiny wittle kitty cat very much and my stupid dopey one. I do want to steal a monkey from my neighbor and i want to call him George but i will get some jail time if that happens. Is it worth it?