This is written by Babson undergraduate student Anna Gu ‘11

We woke up this morning with excitement and nervousness. It was the first day that we would start teaching at the churches and schools. The morning began with the usual breakfast of eggs and toast. We then waited patiently for the buses to come and pick us up to go to our designated teaching sites. All of us were extremely nervous because we didn’t know what to expect - whether it would be walking into an auditorium full of people waiting to hear a lecture or to a nearly empty classroom. We weren’t sure what the people might want to learn about or if we would be able to keep their interest. While some groups stayed in Sekondi and Takoradi, my group ended up going to a town about 60 miles away called Cape Coast. I was especially nervous walking into a church full of 60 or 70 people waiting for us. I, as well as my group, began to quickly feel comfortable and was able to go with the flow. By the end of the day, we felt like we really helped our new students create business plans and wanted to stay longer to do that because the time seemed to go by so quickly.