We are all teachers, so each day we start and end our days with a commute to our junior or senior schools. For some of us, this is a bit of a journey, but for most of us, we live quite close to our schools so our "commute" is only a 3 - 5 minute walk. We hope you enjoy the views of Ghana that start and end each of our days!
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John
M.: “Luckily,
I only live a few hundred feet from my classroom, otherwise I would have to
wait at the bus stop every morning for the founding members of On the Go Kids
to take me to school.”
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Charlotte
C.: “My
commute to school is a very short 50 meter walk along a sandy pathway, mostly
in the shade of mango and cashew trees.
This picture is taken in front of my house, and you can see the school
just past the trees.”
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Brenda
G.: “My
morning commute, as seen from my front porch, stretches all the way to the far
JHS building. In the morning, the
commute is punctuated by cross traffic of some twenty or thirty munchkins on
their way to kindergarten, which is held at the Catholic church due to limited
school space in the primary buildings in the forefront. Note the soccer field on the right often busy
in the cooler hours before dusk. I like
it best at this hour when it’s peaceful with the orange ball of an Africa sun
setting.”
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Seth
K.: “Every
morning, I head from my house and travel up the road leaving my village. While my commute is not normally so eventful,
it is full of greeting some of the community members and the students from the
schools along the way – from the young primary school students who will
often cover their face before greeting me, to my own students who will
sometimes hitch a ride on the back of my bike.”
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David
R.: “I
live on the school's campus so my walk to school is very short. I pass through
the cashew and mango trees, cross the football (soccer) field, and I’m there.
For
the half of my students that live in the school’s dormitories, the walk is
similar; for the day students, it takes about 30 minutes to walk from town.”
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Winnie
W.: “My
commute to school involves me weaving in and out of people’s compounds and
eventually ending up in this clearing of the school. I’m greeted by children cycling into school,
sweeping, or picking up fallen leaves from the trees.”
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Christina
A.: “My
walk to school is short. I pass the lady
that sells fish and the primary school and Catholic church until I reach the
JHS. I chose this picture because it’s
at this point in my walk where I realize if my students have arrived to
school.”
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Ms. B: “This
is the view from my front porch. I live
on campus next to the school block I work in.
I can easily pop in and out of my room all day while at work. Can totally get power naps in during breaks.”
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Kyle
L.: “This
is the view of my walk to campus. I only
live about 5 min from campus. The leaves
you see belong to one of the many mango trees around campus. When they are in season, I can grab one for
lunch on my way to class.”
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Kyle
L.: “This
is the view walking back from school.
(Although this particular picture was taken in the morning, and I
usually walk home in the afternoon.)”
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