Amazing Race proved once again to be full of action, nerves gone crazy and dissapointments! In this show the first usually is not the first throughout the show. There are so many hurdles the contestants have to go through and they are not easy tasks for some people. These show is full of physical challenges! Wow! Have you seen the show? Do you think you are physically fit to join the show??? This is one thing with the show....you will win only because of you and your teammate!! No outside votes, no peer voting, no judges, and no rose ceremony!!!
The teams have to travel from Accra to Jamestown to find Akotoku Boxing Academy. The first to depart was Brook and Claire. The task in the Academy was for one team member to properly wrap her hands before suiting up in a training gear. Then they had to successfully work on a speed bag for 60 seconds and jump rope for 60 seconds to get the next clue. Brook had fun completing her task!!!
The next clue was to travel by taxi to Dodowa district to find a marked supply depot, where they had to load a pair of wheelbarrow and load them with construction supply. The supplies had to be delivered to the foreman at the Asebi D/A Primary School where they will get the next clue. Some teams struggled with the wheelbarrow containing the supplies, some took only 1 wheelbarrow instead of 2 and had to go back. Others had trouble manipulating the wheelbarrow.
Once they completed the previous task, they had to enter a village classroom to test their knowledge of African geography! They had to correctly identify Ghana on the African map. Did you think everyone passed with flying colors??? Heck, no!!! That is a shame, they are there and they did not know where it was on the map! They must not have paid attention to where they were! A few teams though identified Ghana correctly on the first try! Once they are done with this task, they are set for the next clue.
The next task was a Detour, which the teams had to choose between Bicycle Parts and Language Arts. Bicycle Parts is a popular African game for children where the bicycle rim had to be rolled across a soccer field with the use of a stick. In Language Arts, the teams had to choose a proverb containing highlighted phrases . The teams then had to search for the corresponding symbol in the native visual alphabet known as Adinkra, which was on a large decorative cloth with hundred of symbols on it. Would you believe that there were only a few team that chose it? Only Connor Diemand- Yauman and Jonathan Schwartz, Ivy League ACapella singers stuck to to it and solved it really fast!!! How did they do it???
The bicycle parts game was harder than it look! Many of the teams got sooo mad because they had to do it several times! The father son team, Michael Wu and Kevin Wu were really having a hard time completing the task. The elder Wu succumbed to the intense African heat that he had to be seen by a doctor! But he had a fighting spirit! Once he got rested and got cooled off, he resumed the task! Way to go, Michael!!! Needless to say, Michael and Kevin were the last team to arrive!! But they received the biggest surprise of the game from Phil Keoghan... that was a non-elimination leg of the race! They had to undergo a speed bump though before they can continue, which the Wu's did not care. At least they are still on the race!!!!
Connor and Jonathan were the first to arrive on the Pit Stop, the home of a local villager, Awuso Nitso. They won $5,000 each!!!! That was a good prize! This show also is good in giving out prizes to the first team that arrives in the pit stop!!! They should, look at all the wear and tear on the bodies of the contestants! Plus they get the prizes free from the companies anyway, or their advertisers! Ha! Do you know how hard it is to ask for a donation??? I rest my case!!!
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