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I've been in Cape Coast for 3 days now and I'm just starting to get acclimated. We "obrunis" or white tourists get around by taxi for the most part. To get to where I'm working I'll take two taxis there and two back. The price, although small, will definitely start to add up over 6 weeks of doing this everyday. The rules of the road in Ghana are still a bit unclear to me though. Apparently honking the horn can mean a lot of things. For example, honking can mean "do you need a taxi?" or "I'm going to pass you" or "watch out goat in the middle of the street" or, my favorite, "be careful because I'm about to do something totally stupid." Needless to say malaria is not the biggest concern I have here. I'll be working at Coastal TV, which is more like a shell of a station right now because of a fire that destroyed half of the studio in January. They are in the process of moving to a building closer into town and should be there while I'm still here. My meeting with one of the producers went well today, but I still don't know what I'll be working on for sure. They are a newer local station and focus more on education and community oriented news, so I should be working on a PSA of some type. I'm hoping to work on a documentary project of my own depending on how much time I have. I'm still feeling a bit overwhelmed. The prospect of getting myself to the station tomorrow is a little daunting since it'll be my first time on my own. Although I'm not sure how worried I should be about that when apparently a flood is coming our way and we may not be able to leave the house. Fati, our house mom for lack of a better name, told us to prepare for the water and then made a foot long space with her hands. So, we'll see what happens
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