Aron, Aron go away, come again another day....(maybe)

The weather this week has been a particular talking point in the Tzedek household. On Thursday Abi, Sam, Sasha, Joel and Dan decided to go out for dinner and Pnina and I planned to go and use the interent. About 30 minutes after they left we were about to take the short walk to the internet cafe when the heavens opened. Now in Ghana when it rains it really pours! I ran outside to bring all the bikes into the garage (the great housemate I am) and in that 1 minute of being outside I got absolutley soaked. We then spent the next 5 mins running round the house shutting the windows, trying to control the garage door which was being flooded by water only to find that the roof had started to leak a little! One bukket later and wearing rubber shoes (I'm terrified of lightening!) all was fine. The others though had to shelter in the restaurant (with no walls!) for the couple of hours that it rained for! Never again will I complain about English rain!

Work is still going very well. There is only one week left of school before the holidays and then Dan, Sasha and I will be running 2 weeks of summer classes. I'm really going to miss my kids! Even though I complain on a daily basis that I've taught them how to read a clock for nearly 3 weeks and some of them still say half past instead of both quarter past and quarter to!!!

This week though I have found a new level of frustration with the Ghanian school system. All our classes are taking thier end of year exams and they are causing the teachers no end of stress. Firstly we spent a fair amount of time going through the exam papers and correcting all the terrible English in them which our school teachers ignored and printed their own versions which don't make any sense at all. Secondly some of the questions on the papers are truely rediculous, for instance: Environmental Studies paper - 'Name 4 animals that do wonderful things?' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? Maths Paper - 'Which of these is a multiple of 7: 22, 43, 69?' UM NONE OF THEM!!!!!
On top of this I spent an entire day recalculating all the percentages from their entire years worth of work as they had all been worked out incorrectly! I just can't believe the teachers at this school and it's really making me wonder if anything can be done to help the school when their teachers are so terrible.