"Do not scream. It is bad." and Ghanian Hospitals

First of all, I hope this doesn't raise an alarm but I did get to experience a Ghanian hospital yesterday. After getting back from the weekend trip, we went to placement as usual in the morning, I started at an orphanage called "Happy Kids", which Tara I picked out your little boy his name is Junior:). He is so cute and is one that likes to learn most of the time (for a 2-3 year old) and very energetic. Near the end I started getting abdominal pain, lightheaded, headache and feverish no big deal so our groups leaders decided better safe than sorry. We drove 1 hour and a half to Ho because the hospital in HoHoe would have been a little scarier. We got there and went on what felt like a wild goose chase getting our information in a folder, blood tests (don't worry they had sterile needles) after 3 1/2 hours we finally got to waiting for the doctor which took another 2 hours of waiting before we got into seeing the doctor for him to read our blood results. It was a long, icky process for him to say well you probably have malaria. So I tried not to get sick but it looked like it happened anyway. Don't worry Jenny I'll get rid of the germs before I come home :). After taking the medication as much as I don't want to have had malaria, I feel much better. The other volunteers think it makes a cool story to say that I had malaria anyway. What do you think? Ha I would have rather not.
So today thinks were back to normal we had another typical Ghanian rainstorm which is nothing that you would see in Utah. It will be overcast pretty much all day and maybe sprinkling then you can hear the downpour coming. Now, this isn't just any downpour it is like you are underneath a faucet. These rainstorms have all possible downpour power. You will be soaked in seconds if you are caught in it. The rainstorms also usually only last for maybe 10 minutes if that so like some other volunteers if you get caught you can just hangout under a overhang with some goats and chickens til it stops.
After the rainstorm the day went on like normal and I learned another Ghanian lesson. Screaming means something here. I was walking with the twins, Kaitlynn and Jen on our way to the internet cafe and we heard the bullfrogs that hangout in the 3 foot ditches here. Since we don't normally see bullfrogs we like to shine our flashlight down and look at them. Now it rained a good 3-4 inches so there was alot of water in the ditches. We shined our light down and normally the bullfrogs can't hide cause there is no water, but today it did a little fish jump and jumped out at us and then under. All three of us got startled and just let out a little scream. Immediatly 3 big, strong, Ghanian men came to our rescue:). They asked if we were ok and laughed at us that we screamed over a frog. Then they told us that you don't scream here it means your in big trouble. It was really great that the people here are so anxious to help when they here someone scream. We also decided that these people must be really tough if screaming is rare.