Saturday, November 26, 2011

Friday, our last day in Ghana, Peter (my son) and I went with Sonny from the Aya Centre to Tot to Teen School, where we spoke to some 200 junior high students.  As you can see, once Peter got rolling, he really got rolling.  He talked about what school in the U.S. is like and about football (soccer).  I spoke about my belief that students in Ghana and the U. S. generally know each other only through stereotypes learned from popular culture and that one-to-one communication would enable  the two sets of students to both learn more about each other and to care more deeply about what happens in distant places.  The school is located in Madina, just outside of Accra and not far from the University of Ghana.  It's a high-performing school that did a similar project several years ago.  Here, as elsewhere, Peter felt very welcomed.  We were both deeply impressed by the warmth of Ghanaians and hope to return soon!

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