Ghana-Orphanage Work

I was in Ghana for 2 weeks working at the kumasi childrens home. I lived with a local family that lived about a 45min away from the childrens home. I enjoyed myself VERY much and I am looking to go again in the future. When I first arrived I had no idea what to expect, the thing that hits you first is the heat! It was so hot already at 7am when I arrived. Then I took the extremely long journey to Kumasi, luckily the VIP bus had AC. The culture shock alone was pretty hard to deal with for a coupe days just because I wasnt used to having people swarm around me trying to help me with my bags or anything like that. My host family really made my trip, priscilla my house mother was great! The food is very very spicey so that was another challenge I had to deal with. A typical day for me started about 6:30am, where I would shower (with my bucket and cup because we had no running water in the house) then my breakfast would be waiting for me a the table, from there I would walk to my junction to catch my first tro to sofaline. Once there we needed to transfer to another tro that took us to the airport roundabout, once there we had about a 5min walk to the orphange. Class was usually started by the time we got there so I headed into my kindergarten class until it was time for their break, we would then take all the kids to the playground to play and socialize. After the break was over I headed to the newly put together disabled class because we felt that every child deserved to be in a classroom and learning. After we were all done for the day we would usually head into adum for some shopping at the supermarket, or to go to the internet cafe.
The entire time i was there i felt 100% safe, and if i had any problems the staff was there to help me out in any way