Wednesday..on the road again!!

We had an early start as we went back to St. Anthony’s to visit the schools before eight am. There are about 700 students and Father Simon was giving a session in the church for the older students. We saw all the great children and had breakfast with Simons family. We travelled on to the next parish, St. Paul’s,Bishop Matthias first parish as a priest and also where he grew up. They were another wonderful group of people and more smiling school children. This school is very large with two teachers for each level in one room with 60 plus students. Some of the younger ones sang for us. After we toured the church to see the progress we had a meeting with the wardens and leaders of the parish and lunch with Father Prosper’s family. Hilary the six month old boy slept on the floor as we ate and chatted. We also met the Bishops mother in this parish.
On we went again down the border between Togo and Ghana. We went in another road to visit an an anglican school and had a wild adventure there that cannot possibly go on this blog. After many treacherous roads we reached the Atlantic Ocean... 0nly then would Matthias ag.ree to take us back to Ho for the night The beaches on this coast are fabulous but the people very poor and there is no tourist development. It took us three hours or more to get back to Ho with several stops along the way. Our accomodations were not available so we searched for another hotel and got settled around nine. It was a l0ng day but each one holds special moments we will always treasure. I leave for home tomorrow so there is a sadness setting in that has more to do with the wonderful people here than any tourist site or long bumpy road.