Beach house for a day

We went to a friend of Martinas, Karine, also on the board for futures for kids who I havent met yet, to their beautiful poolside/beachside house originally built by a French couple. A group of families came, Alison another FFK member and her family who are British, Adriana and a friend who are Italian, and Susanna and her daughter who are also Italian. I feel a bit confused about why I have been socializing so much with Europeans and not other Ghanians. I also went to a BBQ at the house of some Belgian engineers. Nevertheless the house was gorgeous the company was good and I enjoyed myself a lot. It was interesting discussing various topics such as politics, child rearing in a media saturated culture, living abroad vs going home or when ones home becomes going abroad. Also interesting to realize that I no longer fall into the Kids day at the pool-playing around with toys in the water and running around, but instead passed the time with the adults-chatting and laughing over a glass of wine...

 Martina my gracious host and founder of Futures For Kids and her daughter Kristen :-)

I am continually surprised at people's impression of the USA and feel like a bit of a negative nancy when I keep explaining that: our school system is funded illogically and unfairly and hence there are many students who are failed academically, that our political system is so corrupt and that corporations essentially rule our country based on greed, that our health care system is a disaster and that many people do not have access to it and that the pharmaceutical companies and HMO run it based on greed and the bottom line...The Europeans were more aware of this stuff than the Ghanians but the specifics were still news to them...