Homestay

So I was assigned to live in the home of “Auntie” Faustina and Kofi Adu. They were retired school teachers so they from teaching. The reason she was so excited about having a Peace Corps volunteer is because back in the 60’s while she was going to teacher training school she had Peace Corps teachers. She had so many fond memories of those volunteers that when she got the chance to be involved with PC again she jumped at the chance.both spoke really good English. All of their children where grown but they did have two kids who lived with them and helped out with chores which is a common thing in Ghana. There was also young man who was not there biological son but someone who they had basically adopted since he was 6 years old. They also had a young lady who cooked for us and they took care of their two nephews who were mentally retarded none of them lived there but they were always around. If that family situation sounds complicated all I have to say is I had one of the most normal family situations of any home stay. Normal of course being what our interpretation of a family should be which is very different than what it is in Ghana. So it was a full family they had a nice home and I felt very comfortable there it really was a great place to have home stay. Auntie was great I think she enjoyed having me around because she like to speak English something she rarely did since she retired