Day 24: Action Packed Day: Camfed | Busy Internet | Accra High School | OrphanAid Mentoring

We were almost at the end of our programs and at the end of our last full week. *Damn!*

We started the day with our itenary well planned out - it was going to be sessions Busy Internet (biggest internet cafe in Ghana) & Camfed in the morning followed by OrphanAid mentoring & Accra High school sessions in the afternoon.

The girls from Camfed who we had trained yesterday would come to Busy Internet for some hands on sessions on the internet. We got their at 9:00 am . The next 2 hours was spent in getting them to send emails to each other, search for things on the internet - including image search, chat with each other etc. The girls got most excited when they  searched for 'Samuel' (their program coordinator) and found his picture - which resulted in them searching for each others names! Gmail themes was also a big hit & soon you could see all sorts of colorful Gmail inboxes. 

Alongside Camfed training, Gopi, Yannic & Mohit fielded any questions from the 'walk-in's to the internet, about Google's products and did their bit in reaching out to as many as possible. 

After the session, we had a quick lunch @ Office & the teams left for OrphanAid mentoring or to Accra High School. I was excited about this mentoring sessions as I loved working with college students and the group we were to mentor was just that!

Olivia, Megan & I got there 30 mins early so we started by general intro to get to know everybody & what they were doing. It was interesting to hear about their courses & their interests. One chap who evidently was an artist had painted his jeans all over - making himself a walking gallery of his artwork!  We used role plays to show them what a good and a bad interview looks like and they were very quick at picking up the points on what makes an effective interview. Then, we got a few volunteers from the participants to do the role play for the group and some of the questions they asked were very smart & interesting. (I've even added some of them to my list of interview questions) ;) 

Our 15 mins Q&A session stretched to almost 45 mins as their inquisitive minds tried to make maximum use of us being there.  Questions about 'How to sound convincing', 'How effectively answer specifically to the question asked' etc

Soon we were heading back after promises from them of working hard, of getting good jobs & of seeing us in Google! When we were heading for the session, we were quite tired but we left the place refreshed & excited about those students! After feasting on some really delicious kebabs they served on the street side - we headed back to Holi Flats.