Four finals down, two more to go. On Thursday I had my Twi written exam. It was pretty chill, as the class has been all semester. This is a class that is set up specifically for UC EAP students. The prof is this little ol’ bald guy with a baby face. He’s so cute. We’ve been learning lots, but I honestly feel like I learn more Twi out on the streets than in class. We hardly had any assignments or quizzes, so we weren’t pushed to shove Twi into our heads. It's nice having Twi with just the EAP kids. During orientation we’d all gotten pretty close to one another and we get along very well. Twi is a time where we can commune back together again during the week and catch up a little. It makes class fun. We laugh and make fun of each other when we completely butcher Twi during group oral exercises in front of class. The rest of the class just sits there muffling our giggles like school children cause its so ridiculous. Professor Pepreh gives his lil’ boy frown with a confused smile demanding why we are laughing at our fellow classmate, trying to understand our insensitivity. I had my oral exam today. It was ok. Could have been better because I was pretty nervous. But Twi is done! I’m sad because I’ve learned this language, but it isn’t spoken ANYWHERE else, so I can’t really use it. It’s a dialect that is only spoken in particular regions of Ghana. And apparently it’s spoken in some obscure rural area in Germany as well. But that’s it! Sad. That means i must come back to Ghana some day and utilize my Twi.

On a separate note, ISH 2 has no water again. I'm impressed though because we haven't had a water outage in maybe three weeks. They are usually more frequent, but lasting only a day or two, but on two occasions we didn't have running water for four and a half days. It was pretty gnarly. We still get water from the spickets from giant water tanks, but sometimes even those run out. Then the bathrooms get REALLY disgusting. During those four and a half days, we also lost electricity. We haven't had a big electricity outage in maybe a month? But we still have small ones that last a few hours from time to time. ISH 1, the international hostel across from us always has electricity and water because they have a generator. Apparently they forgot to put a generator in ISH 2 when it was built...AFTER ISH 1. ISH 2 gets pretty bitter at ISH 1 when there's no power and water. But the nice thing is that we can just head on over to ISH 1 to charge our electronics and take showers. We have it good though. Several halls on campus hardly ever have running water and residents always have to lug water from the spickets, like Legon and Volta Halls (the all boy and all girl dorms where some EAP students are living at).

Time to sleep so I can be well rested for an intense day of studying.