Day 5 - 15th August - Connor + Raj + Mat H

Rest day - Church and Elmina slave forts

Day 5 started with an early wake up call, and a quick change, ready for church. We were aloud to separate into groups depending on what church we wanted to go to. However most of us went to the Pentecostal church with Robert, whilst the others went to the Methodist church with Isaac, another of our guides. The Pentecostal church consisted of lots of singing dancing and music. At one point during the service, we were all asked to go up to the front to sing and dance. We decided to sing “reach for the stars” and “if you’re happy and you know it” after that we stayed a short while before retiring to camp. The Methodist church began with signing and drumming, then everyone did prayers for the country and the community. Afterwards a very intimidating man stood up and started to say that if we didn’t do a good job then we would be going to hell, so basically it was all smiles! After that we took all our buddies to Elmina Castle, which is the largest and oldest castle in west Africa. We had a 45 minute tour, and time afterwards to make a video of the things we found most moving or horrific about the conditions slaves were kept in during the slave period. To the disgust of most of our buddies during the ‘bant tank’ ride there and back we sang a lot of songs such as Bob Marley – Buffalo Soldier with Gaza, Robert and Izaac (a.ka. Shaggy). We all love Robert and Gaza and Isaac!!! Peace out, love Connor, Raj and Mat H.