Day 6 - Akomadan Schhol (substitute for Bayerebon no3)

This morning seemed like bliss as we seemed to get a bit more of a lie in that we felt we deserved. After a standard breakfast Mr Dean explained to us that due to the same problem with roads as yesterday, we wouldn't be able to visit the school that we had planned to. Fortunately, two teachers and three students were able to come to us and accompany us to a different school that the wonderful Erica was able to organise.

This is a different school that has been set up for the children of Divine Chocolate cocoa farmers and we were very lucky that they were happy to host us at very short notice. As we drove into the school we seemed to stir up excitement as students lost focus and ran to the windows to see visitors arriving. Before even having a chance to get all of our bags out of the vans, students came with chairs for all of us that we arranged in a circle so we could all individually introduce ourselves.



We split ourselves into groups, some showing students how to use the video cameras, others taking promotional photos for the NEW DUBBLE BARS that will be used in their advertising campaigns. The rest of us were left to entertain the students during their lunch break.
Kevin, Raymon, Harry and Dombrandt did an excellent job of teaching a large group of the children how to use the camera and computer equipment that we donated. They were very clear with their explanations and made sure that the kids were able to demonstrate all the skills that they were being taught before moving on. The children were so excited and eager to volunteer to help with the demonstrations!!

Stephen, our designated photographer, along with Miss Malik, Dieter, James, John, Rhys and David were given the task of taking all the promotional photographs for the NEW DUBBLE BARS. Divine Chocolate had sketched some basic diagrams for us to use. Miss Malik made an amazing director, organising all of her models while Stephen turned out to be like a professional photographer. We used a mixture of our boys and the local school children holding our giant Dubble Bars.
Mr Street, Alex and Mendonca had a competition to see how many kids they could dead lift. Surprise surprise, Mr Street managed 17 kids…must be those huge biceps.



Lunch was another fantastic meal with the same lush tomato sauce that so many of has had fallen in love with the day before. Sean managed to eat a bit of rice with a side of rice. After lunch we presented the school with the gifts that we had brought over which consisted of stationary and books. The headmaster thanked us all individually. Harry and David seemed to be whispering sweet nothings into David’s ears and had to be refocused to the task at hand.



As we headed off, the kids crowded outside the vans which pulled on the heart strings which made Mr Street shed a tear or two.

After returning to the hotel and freshening up, we set off to what could be the best meal of the trip. We went to the restaurant at the poshest hotel in the area. Mr Dean had to share his clothes Streety and John who for some reason thought it was a good idea to leave their best clothes in Accra. There was a lot of love around the table between Kevin & John (holding hands to the toilet together) and Alex & Joe (in their snuggles at the table)…BFF’s. The meal was amazing with the highlight being the tomato soup with Dombrandt having 4 servings and Rhys nailing it with 5!!

Ben didn’t disappoint and in his “Dombrandt way” had Ray and Kevin in stitches as he entered the room saying “This is my favourite shirt, This is my favourite shirt, This is my favourite shirt”….SAY WHHHHAAATTT!!!!