Diamonds aren't just a girl's best friend

I'm a bit behind, so for now, I'll start telling about what happened on Sunday the 25th of January:

I met a guy, Musah, a few days earlier on the trotro, who comes from Akwatia and wanted to show me the diamond mines there and present me to his brother the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the current ruling party.
So when I arrived in Akwatia, Musah took me to his home to meet his family. There I met his brother sitting in a circle with his associates. I talked to him about politics in Ghana; he's obviously one of the best people to do that with. Basically, the Ghanaian system is a mix between the English and the American, with a President and checks and balances and a Parliament consisting of members voted for by their constituencies. (I'll explain the system in greater detail in a different post, but since it is time-irrelevant I will write about it whenever I've got time)
I also challenged him on the security of the constitution and thus the possibility of a totalitarian regime, but just because he does not see any loop holes in the constitution does not mean there aren't any.
After that, Musah and I went through the town to see some of the diamond dealers. Sadly I came too late to see the vivid diamond market, where the individuals sell their mined diamonds. Nevertheless, the dealers have their offices and since that morning was the diamond market, the dealers had plenty to show. We first sat down in the biggest dealer's office. There was a pile of low-quality diamonds worth approx. 50-100$, there were high-quality ones worth about 200-300$ and he also had a few processed diamonds worth about 500$. I even got to keep one diamond!!!
Afterward, he took me on his motorbike to see one of the old diamond mining plants, which are no longer in use due to the fact that the mining company went bust soon after the British had to hand it over to the Ghanaians because Ghana was decolonized.

This is the deserted plant, where only two security people remain, to make sure nobody does anything foolish. One of them walked round it with us to explain the process that happens when mining for diamonds.

This is Musah on his bike.

The week after that was the sports tournament, where the volleyball girls became third and the boys reached the final where a winner has yet to be determined because some people from town disallowed the game to continue. As I understand it one football team tried to bring on an unregistered player, which the organisers disallowed. I hope the match is going to be continued, but I'm not certain.
After having been in Accra on Saturday, I went to Swedru to have a dip in the pool of the Greenland hotel and to use the internet. The internet was closed because it's Sunday and the pool was being cleaned with chemicals... So I just sat by the pool all day relaxing, reading etc.
Yesterday, my headphones (one of the things I forgot to pack in London) arrived which really made my day. Today, I was asked by some students from form 2 whether I could teach them maths instead of the normal maths teacher because I explain better, which also made my day. However, coming home fairly late yesterday, I was too tired to fulfill their request.

Just a note on the side: If you want to test the quality of a football, give it to an African child! The football I bought in England for 3GBP and gave to my host brother, was kaputt after about 2-3 weeks.