Well! It feels strange and also normal to be back.

We flew into Heathrow Airport and got home before my brother and sister had left for school.

It was so nice to see them and Mum again.

Everyone clapped

By lunchtime I was ready to go to school.

Dad walked down the hill with me and when I walked into my class everyone clapped.

It was really nice.

Poor farmers

I know going to Ghana was a really special thing to do.

I looked at the website today. It seemed like I had written a lot!

But it also seemed I had left out lots of stuff I could have said.

Like how poor some of the farmers are.

They have so little and we have so much.

Fairtrade helps

Fairtrade obviously helps, but even that seems like such a little.

I'm hoping to organise that trip to the chocolate factory in Germany.

And I'll write about that too.

Thanks to everyone who read my diary."

"Hello again - just a short blog today.

It's really late and Dad says I have to sleep because tomorrow we head back to Accra to catch the flight to London.

Chocolate school

"Hello again from Kumasi!

Today we all went to the second part of the AGM (annual general meeting). This was a bit better than yesterday - but still consisted mostly of speeches although I did like the bit where I was introduced as a 'BBC reporter' and everyone clapped, and I liked it when everyone got up to dance.

But at one stage I felt quite home sick and so I called my mum and also my best friend, Lola, and that made me feel better.

Shopping trip

We didn't stay the whole day because my dad wanted to go to the market. So after lunch at the hotel, we called for a taxi and set off.

There aren't any buses in Kumasi and everyone goes on foot or by these black and yellow taxis.

The taxis don't have meters and you have to agree a price with the driver before you go.

Dad said it was much cheaper than in London. He reckoned that at home the journey would have cost £7 or £8, but here it cost only 80p!

Friendly strangers

The market was huge and busy and a bit scary at first. In Ghana it's very different from London because as you're walking along people come up to you and shake your hand even if you don't know them.

Kumasi market is one of the biggest in Africa and you can buy almost anything in it.

Our taxi driver explained that there is another market that they call the European Market because that is where the whites used to shop before independence.

Organised chaos

But we went to Adum, which is the central market. And it really is huge. We saw only one little corner of it and I felt I had seen everything there is to buy in the world.

At first it seems like chaos but it is actually very well organised because in each alley you will find a particular kind of item.

Like, if you start on the main street and then when you turn the corner you're in shoe lane then you turn again and you're in cloth alley and so on and so on.

Cooling off

The crowd made me feel a bit shy but not as bad as when I went to the school because every one was doing their own thing (well most of them).

We didn't actually buy anything but ended up in the Catholic Cathedral, which is a beautiful cool building on a hill in the middle of town.

They were in the middle of Mass and so we didn't stay long. Dad then had to give a new taxi driver directions on how to get back to our hotel.

Slow connection!

Fortunately it's quite easy to find because it is on the same hill as the soccer stadium and you can see that for miles around.

I'm sorry I haven't been replying to questions in the chatroom. The internet access here is really slow and we can't always wait for the page to load. But I hope you're enjoying the blog!

"Hello again,

Today I'm going to start by saying a few hellos, first I'd like to say: "Mum, Meg & Cal, I miss you all loads and loads." I'd also like to say 'hi' to everyone at Eleanor Palmer School, especially Lola, Eliza & Miss Penny.

Today I went to the Annual General Meeting of Kuapa Kokoo which is where all the cocoa farmers who belong to the coop gather together to discuss their progress and their plans for the following year.

Understanding

"Hello again!

Boy, today I had two extremely different experiences.

First I went and visited a school in a remote village quite a long way from Kumasi.

Fairtrade help

This school is important to Kuapa Kokoo because they used some of the money created by Fairtrade chocolate sales to build it.

I met one of the Kuapa staff, Mr Mohammed, who told me how the money paid for the materials and some of the construction equipment.

And all the people in the village had worked to build the school as well.

No electricity

Dad thought I should see how it really felt to work in a classroom that had no electricity and so I sat in on a fourth year English lesson.

I was very glad the teacher was speaking English!

Homesick

But I was also feeling overwhelmingly shy from all the kids looking at me and I would have preferred not to.

I think maybe I was a bit homesick as well. At least the lesson was quite easy - for me at any rate!

And anyway Dad said I was missing school in England and it was good for me to go to school. Hmmm.

New improved school

The new school was pretty basic.

It was really just a long row of classrooms next to a playing field. But on the other side of the field we could still see the remains of the old school.

That was just two rooms without lights and with just holes in the walls for windows. I could see the new one was a serious improvement.

Football fever

My second experience was much more exciting.

We got back to Kumasi just in time to go to a football match at the national stadium. It was huge!

We used to live just next to the Arsenal in London and I would see the crowds go past on match days.

I reckon there were twice as many people here as at Highbury!

Team colours

We were sitting with all the home supporters of the Kumasi Kotoko team and so Dad bought me a hat in their colours (red and white).

I wanted them to know I was on the right side!

Kumasi scored a great goal really early on and after that the crowd were pretty happy.

Drenched!

Just before half time it started pouring - and I mean really pouring - with rain and so we left.

Dad (who should have known better) forgot to bring our raincoats or umbrellas.

So we walked back through town in the rain and got completely drenched.

Warm rain

What was quite weird was that the water running down the streets was warm, like a bath.

The roads get so hot during the day that they warm the rain water up!

Anyway, I really enjoyed the football match.

My brother and sister have been to Arsenal matches, but I haven't.

It was my first ever footie match and it was in a foreign country which made it even better."

"It's been quite a day!

We slept in Kumasi last night and this morning I went a paid my first visit to the head office of Kuapa Kokoo.

The Chairman is called Mr Appiah.

I knew him from before because he has come to our house when he has been in London.

Different traditions

"Wow! I can't believe that 24 hours ago I was in London.

It was pouring with rain when we took off from Heathrow airport but when we landed in Accra, the capital of Ghana, it was night time and still very hot.

And now we have just arrived in Kumasi in the middle of Ghana.

Last night we stayed in Accra, but I didn't really see much of the city at all.

All we did was swim in the hotel pool, have breakfast (cornflakes and omelette) and then get in the car to come to Kumasi.

Long journey