Group
1
Dear Students in
N.Y.
We are students in
T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School. By
the way, how are you. We hope you
are fine and we are also fine as you are!
This letter is written
to you by three students in form 1A. Our
names are Ahmed Bashir Faza, Abdul Razak Ahmed and Catherine Gamor Kafui.
Our ages range from 16 to 18 years.
We speak different languages but the most common among us is Akan(twi)
and Hausa. We are from different hometowns which are Tamala, Bawku and Keta.
Our favorite subjects are General Knowledge of Art, Science and painting.
Our favorite food is Banku and okro soup, which is prepared with corn
dough, cassava by stiring it while on the fire. We
also enjoy music very well, as you do but the musicians that we like best
are Derba, Abrafos, and Nana Akyam Pong.
Our hobbies are football and hidu-game. We
will end here and we hope you will enjoy reading our letter as we wrote it
joyfully to you.
Yours ever
students in Ghana!
Group 2
Dear
Students in NY
Hello, we are students
from Ghana, T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School, Asokore Ashanti. By the way, our names are Memuna Musah from
Wenchi, Alifa Abubakar from Presea, Opuni K. Dora from Domeabra, and Yussif
Abubakar from Wenchi. We
are having the great pleasure to write this delighted letter to you. Ever since we started our education, all our dreams is to get to
write somebody from your beautiful country!
Our ages are 16,16,18, and 19. We
speak twi, English and Hausa. The
subjects we like best are English, Business Management and Accounting because we are business students. Also,
we are intrest in Abrafou, Daddy Lumba and Kojo Antwi music. The food we also like best is amperes (boiled
yam and stew.) So we decided to write to knock at your kindness so that we
can always communicate with each other! By
the way, our stomachs are crying of fried rice so we have to leave you and
go with much love and greetings to you all over at New York!
Until then,
bye…….!
Group 3
Dear
Students in NY
Greetings from
T. I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School in Ghana.
We are very glad to you write you this letter. Our names are Lukman Gariba, Ohemen Patrick, Mariam Ahmed and Mkrumah
Mavis. We are 15 and 16 years old.
We come
from different parts of Ghana. They
include Domeabra, Asokore and Asaman. We
speak both Twi, the Akan language, and English.
Twi in the most common language in Ghana and English is the language
that we speak in our schools. The
following are the subjects that we study in our school:
Accounting, Costging, Business Management, Economics, Mathematics,
English , Sciences, Social Studies and Agricultural studies. But, the ones we like the best are Accounting,
Costing, Management, Economics and English. Some
of the musicians we like in Ghana are Daddy Lumba, Nana Acheampong, Tic Tac,
Obra, Reggie Rockstone, Lordy Kenya. The
ones we like the best are Daddy Lumbar and Tic Tac. Some
common foods in Ghana are fufu, ampesi, rice,Tuo-zaafi, banku. We like fufu the best because it is the most tasty! It is prepared by first peeling cassava and
plantain. Wash them and put them in
a saucepan and put water in it before putting on the fire. Bring it to a simmer. Expose it o the weather until it is okay to
be pounded. After pounding it is ready
to be eaten with a light soup. It’s
delicious!
Well…..we hope to
hear from you soon!
Bye, from Ghana!|
Group 4
Hi, students in NY
.
It
has been our greatest pleasure to write to you students in New York City.
We are students of
T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary school in Ghana, at Asokore in theAshanti Region
in Ghana. Our
names are Patrick Bukari, Bashiru Adam, Halimah Yeboah and Ibrahim Hessan. Our ages rand from 16 to 18 years old. We speak many different languages. They are English, Twi for the Ashantis, Huasa
for the northerners, and Wala or Daagare for the upper regions. There are about 10 different regions in Ghana,
and we all come form different regions. Patrick
is from Kumassi. Halimah, Hassan and Bashiru are all from Techiman in the
Bron g Ahafo region of Ghana.
As
business students we offer Business Management, Costing, Accounting, Science,
Economics, English, Mathematics and etc.
But our favorite ones are accounting, English, mathematics, science
and economics. As
entertainment is included in our education here in Ghana, our best and favorite
music stars are plenty, some of them are Lord Kenya, Reggie Rockstone, Abrafos,
Tick Tack , Tic Tac, and Deeba. There
are many different good groups in Ghana.
Some of them are fufu, ampesi with any stew, Tuo zaafi, Banku and okro
stew, but our favorite is ampesi and kontonmire stew.
It is prepared by boiling cocoyam and any favorite veggies. Grind your pepper and the vegetables, and then
add salt to the stew. Next, add palm
oil, which is a red oil. Then the
food will be ready for you!
This is all we
have for you right now…..Good bye!
Group 5
Dear Students in
NY
Greetings! We are students from T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary
School, Asokore in the Ashanti Region. Our names are Aziz Adam, Leticia Agyemang, Ayishetu Adam and Adam
Akjei. We are between the ages of
16 and 19. We come from Kumasi, Pankrono,
Asokore and Agana Wiamoase, which are different town throughout Ghana. As
you may know, Ghana has many different dialects
but our official language is English. We
can also speak other dialects like Twi, Ga and also Hausa. We
have got this knowledge that you Americans study one subject, which in the
one that you want to do in the future. Is
this true? Our favorite subjects are English, Mathematics,
Accounting and Economics respectively. As
you know there is the saying ‘All work and no plan make Jack a dull boy”. Let us talk to you about our music. In Ghana, we have many stars like Daddy Lumga,
NN Acheampong, Reggi Osei Rockstone. But
our favorite stars are Nana Acheampong. Formally
our music was mainly highlife, but with the introduction of the western culture,
we not have hip life. It is highlife
and hip hop combined! Some of the
hip life stars are Obafuo, Tic-Tac and Lord Kenya. We
have different types of foods like fufu, ampesi , and rice and stew.
We will like to hear
from you all and greetings to you and all your friends. Hope to hear from you soon! Good bye!
Your incoming
friends from Ghana…
Group 6
Dear Students in
NY
Greetings! We are students of T.I. Ahmadiyya School in
Ghana at the Ashanti region. Our names
are Edna, Sarah, Sadik, Elizabeth and Sheriff.
Our ages range from 16 and 17. We
speak different languages, but we all speak English.
Our favourite subjects are English, maths and Accounting. Our favorite food is fufu and light soup.
Fufu is prepared from cassava and plantain.
You prepare it by cooking both the cassava and plantain for about 10
minutes. You will then pound the plantain and cassava. For the soup, you will blend tomatoes, pepper
and garden eggs. You put in in a saucepan
and boil it for some time. Then, you
will put the meat, fish, etc chopped with some onions into the stew.
Let it cook for somewhile, and then you can enjoy it!
It\s very delicious. Our
favorite music is Tic-Tac, Obrafo and Lord Kenya.
These are rap musicians from Ghana.
We like the songs because there are some proverbs like “keep yourself
clean and what your forefather did for us|”.
We will end
here…..
Your incoming
friends!
Group 7
Dear students in
New York
Greetings from
students of T.I. Ahmadiyyah Secondary School at Asokore in Ghana-West Africa.
Our names represent
Jamal Mohammed, Adriana Frimpomaa, Abubuakar Kwabena, Farida Afriyie and Farouk
Adam. We are all in the Business class
with ages 16-17 respectively. Our
hometowns are Cape Coast, Abrem, Mampong, Mpmponteng and Accra. The common languages we speak are English, the national language
of Ghana, Twi and Hausa. We
are most interested and enjoy our local music like highlife and hip-life. We also enjoy reggae and funky music.
The food we are fond
of all rice and stew, yam and beans stew as well as fried plantain. Our
school offers business and arts. Our
favorite subject is Accounting. In
school, we have 25 teaching masters with the school population of 450 students. The school has nine blocks for the students
and three department blocks for Science Lab, Visual arts and Home Economics.
We also have one block for the school library.\\As the school is a
boarding, we have 10 blocks for the girls and boys who board at the school.
There are different variety of trees and flowers in the school compound
which make the environment very beautiful.
We also have foot, volley and netball pitches, and a table tennis board.
We have been competing with other schools in such games mentioned.
Students, in NY, we
have much things to emphasize on but we have to end here and as that, we will
also like to hear from you and your school.
Thank you!
Your incoming
friends in Ghana!
Group 8
Dear Students in
New York
Greetings from
your students in T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School, Asokore, Ashanti. We are Osman, Danila, Lucy and Evelyn. Our ages are from 16 to 17. We are from different areas of Ghana, but we
are all Ghanaians. Since
we are from different dialects, we are not speaking the same language. But, the most common dialect in Ghana is Twi,
but we speak only English in school. We
also speak Hausa. We
are all in the same school and we are all offering business.
For business students, we are having 4 electives and 4 core subjects.
We are more interested in the electives, especially Accounting.
Our favorite core subjects are mathematics and science.
In
Ghana here, we have different types of music.
We have the high-life, hip hop and so on.
But we the students are more interested in the hip hop and the rap
music! We think you many know some Ghanaian musicians?
Some are Reggie Rockstone, Abrafos, Daddy Lumba and so on.
Some times, we are interested in American musicians, like Sisqo, 2pac,
Maze, Puff Daddy and so on.
We will like to
end here with much pleasure.
Your loving
students in Ghana!
BYE!
Group 9
Dear Students in
NY
We are very happy
for writing you this letter. How are
you all? We hope by the grace of God
you are fine.
We are students
of AMASS in Ghana, Asokore. We
are three girls and one boy in our group.
Our names are David Bour, Nafisah Swamana, Gyamfi Charity and Sakina
Ntiamoah. Our ages are between 15-17. We
all come form the same region which is Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
We all speak different
all speak different languages. Such
are English and Twi. We are all taking
business in our school. It consists
of nine subjects and they are economics, business maths, accounting, business
management, English, maths, social studies, intergrated science, physical
education and Religious and Moral Education. The
music we like best is hip-hop, such as Sisqo.
And the food we like best is rice and veggie stew.
We will tip here with much greetings to you all. Good bye, and we hope to here from you soon!
Your lovely
students in Ghana!
Group 10
Hello students in
NY
Greetings! We are students form T.I. Ahmadiyya
Secondary School Asokore-Ashanti, Ghana.
The reason why we are writing you this letter is to tell you a bit about
ourselves.
Firstly, our names
are as follows. Philip Okyere, Frimpong,
Latif Jamal, Cynthia Adu Gyamfi, Richard Dwumah and Okyere Oppong Vivian.
With ages 15 to 17. You may see that our ages are not all the same.
Some in our class are even 18 or 19.
The reason is that some people in Ghana may stay at home after their
JSS level before they will continue to Senior Secondary School, some due to
financial problems. Every student needs to pay school fees, and
sometimes there parents are unable to afford it. In
Ghana, there are many different languages, but in our community our mother
language is Twi and English
Group 10
In the name of
allah, most gracious ever merciful
Hello students in
New York !
Greetings! We are students from T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior
Secondary School, Asokore-Ashanti, Ghana.
The reason why
we are writing is to introduce ourselves to you.
Our names are Philip Okyere, Frimpong Latif Jamal, Cynthia Adu Gymafi,
Richard Dwumah and Okyere Oppong Vivian.
We are ages 16,16\7,16,16,15 respectively. You may see that our ages are not the same as you are. Some in our school are even 18 or 19 years
old. The reason is that some students
in Ghana may stay home after their Junior Secondary School level before they
will continue the Senior Secondary School level. This may be due to financial difficulties among their parents.
Moreover, we are all
from Kumasi and attending school at Asokore but we all come from the Ashanti
region of Ghana. Futhermore
in Ghana, there are many different languages, but in our community our mother
language is “Twi” and English is our second language. Since
we are business students our favourite subject is accounting. And also, in our community our best food is
fufu and soup. Fufu is a very delicious
food and in ghana, all the communities like it attached to their food. To prepare fufu, you need ingredients like
cassava, plantain, or cocoyam and you will cook them together and after that
you will pound them together in a wooden mortar with a cooden pistile. You will then add a prepared soup with the
fufu, and eat it with your hands in a bowl.
Finally, our
traditional dance in our community is Adowa andKete. And some of the musicians in Ghana are Lord Keny, Daddy Lumba,
Rockstone andtic tac. Some play hip-life
and others also rap like Sisco and other musicans in America.
We are very grateful to write you this
letter and all the same we want to make friends with you.
So after you receive this, try and reply us!
Thanks…
Your incoming
friends in Ghana!
Group 11
Dear Students in
NY
We are very happy
to write you this grateful letter. How
are you? We hope you are fine as we
are. We send all our greeting to you
in New York. We are learning perfectly
as you do there. Thank you very much
for your acceptance. We will like
to introduce ourselves to you. Our
names are Seidu, 18, Ramatu, 17, Ebenezer, 17, and Opore 16. We come from different parts of the country. Seidu is from Burkina Faso, which is a country
in West Africa. Ramatu is from the
North of Ghana and Ebenezer and Opare are from Asore. We all speak different languages, but we all
speak Twi. Other languages we speak
are Mosi, Gonji and English.
Our favorite subjects
are Home economic and visual art. Our
favorite music is Deeba and Obrafos. The local food that we eat in our country is rice ball. It is prepared by cooking the rice. After you finish cooking it, you put the rice
intro a ball. You eat with soup.
It is very delicious! Our
hobby is playing football! We
end here with much greeting to you and all your friends!
Hope to hear from
you soon!
Bye!
Group 12
Dear students in
NY
Greetings! We are students from T.I. Ahmadiyya
Secondary School. Our names are
Sylvester, Opoku, Joyce Habiba and Godred.
We are ages 15 to 17 years. We
all speak Twi and Ga, along with English.
Our favourite subjects
are English, Mathematics, Science and Arts. We like all kinds of music, but most of all “Thong song” by Siszo.
We also like Celine Dion, gospel music and Tic-Tac.
In
our country, We have many different foods that we eat.
Our favourite ones are fufu and banku.
Our hobbies are listening to music, reading, playing football and watching
films. We
are ending here with much greetings and we are excited to receive your letters
from NY!
Your friends from
AMASS!
Group 13
Dear students in
New York:
We are students
from T.I. Ahmadiyya Scondary School.
Our names are Baba Seidu, thomas, Henry, Sakina and Linda. We are 16 and 17 years old.
We are all Ghanaians
but c ome from different towns and cities. Sakina and Linda are from Accra, and the boys come from Kumasi in
the Ashanti regioin of Ghana. We speak
Twi and English. Our
favorite subject is picture making since we are all from the visual arts and
home economics department. Our favorite
food is yams and green leaf stew, which in our language we call bayere and
nkontomire. You can attach a salty
smoked fish called “koobi”, which you call talapia to the stew. It is very tasty! Our hobbies are swimming, dancing, and football! Our
favorite musicians are Kojo, antwi, Obragos, Tic Tac, Akyeame and Reggie Rockstone.
We are very much
excited to receive your letters from New York!
And we hope you students in New York will be very happy to receive our
letter from Ghana.
With much greetings
from the five of us, we say Cheerio!
Group 14
Dear students in
New York
We are students
from Ghana and our names are elvis, Gideon, Rita and Yakubu. Our ages are from 16 to 19 years old.
As well, our home towns
are scattered throughout Ghana. We speak one language, but we come from different
towns. We can all speak Twi, as well
as English. We have 46 languages in
Ghana, but we use 9 different ones in School. However, we can only speak English when we
are in the classroom. Our
subject we like the best is english, Maths and Visual Art. Our favourite musci is Deeba, Lord Keny, Lumba and Kojo Antwi.
Our favorite food is
banku and okro soup. Our best hobbies are ludu, table tennis, and football.
We wish
you all a happy day, and learn hard as we are doing here. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Bye!
Group 15
Dear Students in
NY
Greetings from
students in T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School.
Our names are Zainabu, Rosemand, Angelina and Adiyiah. We are 16 and 17 years old.
The location of our hometowns are
in the Ashanti region of Ghana. There names are Kumasi, Jaben, Asoskere and Kumawu. In Ghana, we have 49 languages, but we have
9 in school. All the students speak
Twi and English. And
our favourite subjects we like in school is English, Maths and Social Studies. The reason why we like these subjects is because
our teachers teach us well.
We
have many kinds of music in Ghana, but our favourite is Deeba and Lory Kenya. We have many kinds of food, but we like fufu
and banku the best!
We are looking
forward to hearing from you soon!
Bye from Ghana.
Group 16
Dear Students in
New York
We are students
from Ahmadiyya Secondary School. Our
names are Halima, Ayimawu, and Bright. How
is your personal condition of health. Ours is fine, by the grace of the almighty God. We
are in S.S.S. 1A, and we are students of Home Economics and Visual Art. We are the ages of 16-18 yeaers old. Our various home town are Kumasi in the Ashanti
region, Volta region of Ho, Tamale in the northern region. In Ashanti, we speak Twi and English.
Our favourite subjects
are English, Science , Maths and Art and our favourite music is Pholomena
by Tic Tac. Our favourite food is
fufu. Our hobbies are netball, basketball
and football.
This
is our greeting to you all…and we are excited to receive your letters.
Thank you!
Group 17
Dear Students!
Hello. We are the students of T.I. AMASS Asokore and
our namesare Ahmed Bashir, Baba, Asirifi Evens, Mavis Quaye and Khadija A.
Karim. Our ages
are from 15 to 19 years, and we are all from Ghana.
But we come from different hometowns, like Tamale, Koforidua, Cape
Coast and Togo. We
can speak about five languages, such as English, Twi, Hausa, French and Ewe. Our favourite subjects are English, Maths,
History to name a few. Our favourite
foods are fuf, gari and beans, rice and banku.
Banku is a delicious food prepared by using corn and fufu is prepared
by using yam, casava and plantain. Our
music we like the best is Tupac, Puff Daddy, Notorious B.I.B., Mase, Will
Smith, Brandy, Monica and Celine Dion. The
hobbies we like best are football, volleyball, swimming, reading story books,
listening to music and table tennis. Our
advise to you is that, study hard so that you can become good leaders in the
near by future, we will like to end here with our letter, because there is
a master in the class ready for classes to begin.
We want to know
more about you in your letter!
Good bye!
Group 18
Dear Students in
NY
Hello. We are students of T.I. AMASS in
Asokore. Our names are Esther,
Benedictor, Nimatu and Deniel. Our ages
are 17 to 18 respectively. We are from
Ghana, West Africa but our hometowns are Konom, Tafo, Wa and Paga. We all speak English, but different
languages, such as Akan, Walar and Kasena.
The Akan language is spoken by the Ashanti in the southernpart of Ghana.
However,
our favourite subjects are English, French and Science. Anyway, we eat different kinds of foods, but what we like best is
banku, and fufu. Fufu is pounded in
a mortar and pestle. Also, our favourite
music is Celine Dion and we like reading as a hobby.
Eventually,
we are very excited to introduce ourselves to you over in NY. We are waiting for you to introduce yourselves
to us. We would be glad to hear from
you! Till we hear from you, good bye
and have a nice day!
Your students from
Ghana!
Group 19
Dear Students of
New York!
We are students
from T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School Asokore.
Our names are Reina Opoku, Rita Mensha, Kesseh Jibriel and Abdul Mohammed. Our ages range from 16 to 19 years old. We are from different hometowns, those being
Jaben, Effiduase, Tamale and Sunyani. We
speak different languages. They are
Twi, Ga, Ewe, Wale, Fante, and Hausa.
Our
favourite subjects are Maths, English, History, Science, Economics. We have different foods in Ghana but our favourite
ones are fufu, yam, ampesi, and Tuo zaffi.
We
like all kinds of music, but our favrourite is Gospell and highlife. Our hobbies are swimming, writing leters, and reading story books.
We are
very excited to write you about ourselves, and we hope to hear from you soon!
Bye!
Group 20
Dear Students in
NY
We are from T.I.
Ahmadiyya Secondary School, Asokore in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Our names are Maxwell, Adam, Hakeem, and Mavis
respectively. We are 17 to 18 years
old. We hail from different parts
of Ghana, but we are all Ghanaians. The
main languages we speak are Asante Twi, Fante, and Ewe.
We also speak English. Our
favourite subjects are science, economics, english and history. Our favourite foods are rice and beans, cabbage
stew and banku and okro soup. The
music we like best is highlife, along with funk and reggae. We
sould like to take this utmost opportunity to describe our school so you know
how our school is. The name of our
school is t.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School in Asokore of Ghana. It was founded by Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionaries in 1980. Our school is a big school with many imposing
structures. The school has ten buildings
painted with yellow which serves as boarding houses.
Our
school is a mixed schhol with a large population of about 500 stduents. There are 25 teachers, along with a headmaster
and assistant headmistress.
Due
to good academic work, our school is one of the best in Ghana, along with
sports activities. There is discipline,
good mood, law-abiding, hospitality and patriotism.
Also, we have proficient teachers.
Please, students
of NY, we will be full of enthusiasm if you also write to us so as to know the
cordial relationship between us.
Please,
we would like to end here with much greetings.
Bye!
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Note from Cari
Gersh: There are 8 more letters, however….due to my
time limit on the computer…I was unable to send all of them. These 8 letters are similar to these sent now.
As you can see, my students’ letters consist of the same information.
I hope their ideas will expand a bit during their next letter!
We are all waiting
anxiously for your students’ letters…..so we hope to hear from you soon.
This is my first
time doing an internet project, so what suggestions do you have as a theme for
our internet project? My students are
eager to learn about New York. I’ll be
discussing with them possible themes…….what do you think your students might
want to focus on?
I have access to
the internet about once a week……so if my reply isn’t quick, it is because I
didn’t have access to check my mail.
Also, since there are no computers, I am thinking of sending off letters
once a week……how does this sound?
Unfortunately, there 6 not much room in the curriculum here for an
internet project…and even more, there is no computers for the students to use,
so I will be typing all their letters into the computer. I have 150 students, and they are broken up
into 3 different classes. So, I’ve
grouped them together, with 5 students in a group. As time goes on…..I will see if all my students will take part,
since we might have to use time after school to write the letters, therefore
I’m not sure if all students will take part.
But, they are all excited, and are all eager to contribute!
Say hello to NY!
Goodbye from
Ghana……
Cari