Carol Service "Acrobats"

Though I'm no longer attending University Primary School, I wanted to go to the last day of school before Christmas break to see friends and say good-bye and Merry Christmas. That day, that last day of school, after all the exams were over, they had a carol service. And in that carol service there were "acrobats"! (by the way the carol service started 2 1/2  hours late!)

Well, I went to the carol service and we sang one Christmas song and then dancers and "acrobats" pranced out on to the field. The "acrobats" only did one 'trick'. This trick was built kind of like a pyramid with 8 people kneeling on the bottom, four people kneeling on top of them, then one short guy climbed on top of all the people kneeling. He made it to the top, surprisingly. He stood on top of them, and after about half-a-second, his arms started flailing as he attempted to keep his balance and stay up. He flailed for about two seconds before falling flat on his back. He darn near busted his trailer hitch!

Everyone started cracking up, except the dude who fell. That was the end of the acrobat performance.

Anywho,

Kojo.

I don't have pictures of the acrobat, but I have pictures of my old school, back in the day (two months ago).

my school supplies

my classroom and teacher Sir Nahr (pronounced Na)

after school chaos, er, I mean pick-up.

Can you tell I love my uniform? Especially the socks.

The university kids play 'net-ball' on our field - net ball is basically basketball without the backboard.

My Essay on the Cape Coast Castle

I wrote this essay as part of my home school.


My family is in GHANA because my dad worked seven years so he got a sabbatical and he chose Cape Coast. We arrived in Accra on the 22^nd of August 2013.

Cape Coast is famous for its slave castle, and our whole family knew we were eventually going to go there. But before the day of the tour, we were constantly driving by the castle, and on the Fante Christmas, we had walked around the castle.

After a few months we finally went inside the castle, and when we did, it smelled weird, looked very white and big and it was made of cement.

The Cape Coast castle was the biggest of all the castles in West Africa but not the oldest, which is the Elmina castle (1481). The Cape Coast castle was built by the Swedes 1653.They built it as a fort, not a slave castle. The Dutch occupied it between 1663-1664, then there was a war, and the British took over and converted it into a slave castle in 1665. They used it to store slaves and gold so that they could trade with the locals. They sent the slaves by ship to the following places: Brazil, North America, and Europe.

One of the sad parts was that the British put a church on top of the male dungeon. I thought it was sad because the slaves were down in the dungeon and could hear songs and worship going on above them. They also had a room of no return where they would put slaves, who tried to escape, with no food, water, or fresh air, and were left to die in a room closed in by three doors. There was also a door of no return, where the slaves would walk through to board the ships and never come back.

These are some happy things. A few years ago some African-Americans, who were descendants of slaves, were invited to the castle, to put a sign on the other side of the “Door of No Return” that says “Door of Return”. I was happy when the guide said they finally got freedom.

Now no one wants that to happen again. So I’m determined not to let it happen again. I also think that child/human trafficking should stop because it is similar to slavery.

Da Vultcha

A few weeks ago, at school, I needed to go to the bathroom (we're allowed to go to the bathroom whenever we want because we are only two steps away from it). My classroom was on the second floor. I went in there and that day there was a worker who was working on the roof and there was a hole in the roof of the boy's bathroom that is usually covered up by a piece of metal. That day I went in there was another boy already there. I looked up to find the worker and I saw a big fat vulture with a purple ring around his eye staring down at me through the hole. I look over at the boy next me and he says "Da Vultcha!". I thought it was pretty funny.

-this is not the vulture that I saw, but it looked just like this.