I have included several photos below of my campus.
Unlike my friend Leslie, who teaches at another school in Ghana, who has goats that live around her home, Achimota is pretty free of what we consider farm animals. Here is a hen and several chicks on campus, but not near my house. I did see a very large pig (maybe a hog) on campus one day over Winter Break, but did not have my camera - blast!
This is the Form 1 (freshman) classroom block. This has been refurbished recently, so there are ceiling fans and working lights, a box to hold chalk and the eraser. These classrooms have no glass in the windows, just lattice work. This allows for breeze to waft through, but also allows sound to travel. Sound travels very well in all the classrooms, I have been chastized by a prefect several times for the noise level in my classroom.
This is me during my first weeks here next to a termite mound on campus. There are larger ones as well, this is middling sized. I have to post a photo of the remnants of the science lab - the lab was refurbished and remnants were simply placed in a pile outside. The wooden drawers are quickly being devoured by the termites.
I believe I talked about the molds for bead making that are created from the mud of termite mounds (it can withstand the very high temperatures of the kilns where the beads are baked) - that mud comes from a termite mound like this. The termites are to blame for some of the road problems here - they burrow through the soil, taking some away, when this happens under a road for a long enough period of time, pieces of the road collapse into potholes.
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Awwwwh cute chickens!
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