Day 4 - First Day in Kumasi and Pool Party!!!

Today was a very early start. Especially early for the few that set their alarm on English time causing them to wake up an hour earlier than needed and waking up others! This caused tiredness and grumpiness even amongst the teachers. We then headed to the Airport expecting an old propeller plane to await us to take us to Kumasi. To our surprise we were greeted with a jet plane for our short 45 minute flight.

As we walked off the plane at Kumasi we were greeted by a school who waved us off the plane. When arriving at Kumasi we had a short drive to our new hotel, the Rees Hotel! 



Here in Kumasi it is very different, from the way the place is laid out and how busy it is. Here it seems much more compact whereas in Accra everything seemed very spread out in the areas we were in. Accra also came across as worse off than Kumasi by looking at the cars and buildings. When arriving at the hotel there is a noticeable difference in the quality of the hotels simply by looking at them. With the quality of the rooms it was a dramatic improve from moving from the bare basic rooms to a luxury room with hot water at our fingertips.  For some reason Dieter amd Dombrandt ended up with the largest room in the hotel…they must have taken one look at Dieter and thought he needed a kingsize bed all to himself. 




Also at the new Rees Hotel we now have a swimming pool which is suitable to use. As we arrived the first thing all the boys wanted to do was get straight into the pool. This they done and made a lot of noise about it while playing many games with a rugby ball starting with water polo. After all going into the pool we all went for lunch at the hotel restaurant. We arrived there at 1:30 and the first food was not served until 2:30 with the last being at 3:00. After the lunch we all had time to relax as this our day off, as this was a public holiday in Ghana at our hotel a pool party was going on.

Many of us got involved and had a great time in the pool with all of the locals, all having a great time. After the pool party we all decided it would be time for dinner so we all got ready and headed back to the hotel restaurant. Not learning from out mistakes we then sat in and ordered again having to wait another hour at least for our food.