Madventurer Orphanage placement Ghana - Lucy Hems Feedback 06/02/10 4 weeks

Best bits - The people and being able to share all these fantastic experiences with the other volunteers.Although the sports bar crawl organised by the crew came rather close!The people made the trip, we got on really well and looking forward to a UK reunion.

Overall experience - Amazing!Absolutely unforgettable!Would have loved to have spent longer, fantastic place, amazing people.Truly the trip of a lifetime!Thank you so much for all the informative and handy info.I've returned a different person and made strong friendships with the other volunteers, definitely helped though sharing a house with them.I think this worked so well due to the nice group size - not too big or small.

Day in the life - Roll out of bed around 7am after waking up at 6ish, hit a refreshing bucket shower or have some breakfast.Leave for school around 8am, meet with the headmaster for a quick chat before heading to the class.Lunch at the orphanage, or in Ho back at the Mad house. Supper is normally around 6-7pm followed by the washing up, washing, card playing, journal writing, chatting or guitar playing.Then head to bed pretty early around 9.30pm.

Thanks - Thank you so so much for what has truly been the trip of a lifetime - it's made my Gap Year!Would definitely recommend Madventurer to all my friends and family and certainly look at heading on another trip with you myself!Thanks again Lucy!

Madventurer Orphanage & Teaching Placement Ghana - Lucy Courtney Feedback 13/02/10 4 weeks

Best bits - All of it!Spending time with the children, seeing how they teach and learn over in Ghana.Building relationships with the children & teachers, helping them both in lessons and becoming part of the community.Were taken on a tour of the village met weavers, chatted to Felix (headmaster) about Ghana and England (similarities & differences) every day.

Overall experience -AMAZING! Best experience of my life, everyone is friendly, Ho is definitely the best place to be in Ghana.Most memorable moment was teaching the P3 class by myself - massive buzz!Having the kindergarden children sing "I love you" at the end of the last day - I cried!!! I would recommend it to everyone.Ho is amazing, you feel like you are part of the community.As I am going to be a teacher I found going to the school very interesting.It was lovely that you were able to do what you wanted, they were very flexible and welcoming.

Day in the life - Early start (bucket shower!!)

Go to school - chat with Felix

Go to lessons - play a lot of clapping games with KG!

Orphanage - for lunch

Back to school - more clapping and singing games

Go to ho - internet, market etc and go home, play cards and chat, early to bed!

Positive impact - Everyone seemed to love you being there, especially the children, getting some one to one attention.You seemed to make a difference to their day.