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Entry number 2 for this week........
Just thought I'd email and let you know what it is 'generally' like here. I know most of my entries have been tales of mishaps, it isn't always like that here, not really....
One thing I can say is that it is very hot most of the time, and nearly impossible to sleep without the fan on. Another things is that all of the food is spicy, and if you ask a Ghanaian if something is spicy, if it has much 'peppe' in it, they will invariably say no. This means that nearly every single meal is accompanied by a big bottle of water. Breakfast for me is bread with peanut butter and black tea. Black tea because there is no fresh milk here and the milk they use is condensed so it is far to sweet for me. Why peanut butter? Well it is because the jam is an ant graveyard.
The water is cold, unless you shower in the afternoon or evening when it is arm because it has been heated in the tank by the sun during the course of the day. I don't mind having a cold shower I have kind of got used to it, it certainly wakes you up in the morning. There has been water and electricity pretty much constantly since the second week I was here. For most of the first week there was no electricity and therefore no water because you need a pump powered by electricity to get running water. (However as all you avid readers of my journal are aware, I wasn't quite so lucky with the old running water in my trip last weekend to Cape Coast!)
Everyone here is really friendly, the only rude Ghanaian I can remember at the moment was the delightful gentleman at Sammos Guest House. Everyone is only too willing to help, ans bargain with taxi drivers for us so that we get a fair price. Neverthless, when you order food anywhere it will take at least an hour to arrive, even if it just a sandwich. I think perhaps waiters are the exception to the rule.
Something for all you music lovers out there! Westlife and Celine are huge over here, nearly everywhere you go you here one of them. The kids in one of the other volunteers classes had to ask if Celine Dion was black or whit!
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