Monday, May 31, 2010

Today we took the morning off work to go to Kakum National Forrest. They are upping the price tomorrow. The price for Non-Ghanaians to do the canopy walk will go from 9 Ghana Cedis to 30 Ghana Cedis tomorrow. Therefore we decided we should go today so we didn’t have to spend so much money.

Once again we tricked a Tro-Tro into taking us there and bringing us back. I almost feel bad because they just sit and wait for us to be finished instead of driving other people, but apparently it’s a better deal for them too because they are making more money and its nice for us because then we never get stranded.

The canopy walk was amazing. Words or pictures just don’t to it justice. I never wanted to come down. The view was just unreal. There is another option where you can spend the night in a tree house in the forest, which would be awesome, so I think we are going to look into doing that sometime.

We came back to work for the rest of the afternoon. We have a shipment that we have to send out by Friday and each individual garment has to be folded and placed in its own plastic bag. For the rest of the afternoon we folded and bagged garments hardly making a dent in the mass amount of garments to be folded.

We ship all the orders that go to the U.S. to Kristen in Minnesota and then she ships them individually to the customers. That way it makes it easier on the customers because they don’t have to deal with customs. It also helps with distribution costs. As my parents have recently discovered its extremely expensive to ship to and from here. They said it was around $230.00 to ship a 5lbs package. It also gives her a chance to take a final look at all the garments and make sure they are up to Global Mamas standards before sending them out.

After work I made Mac N’ Cheese with noodles and laughing cow cheese. It was not nearly as good as Eli’s, but it got the job done. I’m trying not to eat at Elis everyday. Whenever I go there the food is so good I eat myself into a coma and I’m trying not to spend money.