Wednesday part deux

On my way home, I bought what I thought was a meat pie from a street vendor. Unfortunately there was no meat in it—it was just pastry. Something lost in translation I guess!

Dr. Addae has gone to Accra til Sunday to attend to a few things so I’m here unsupervised. He gave me a list of things to do and Grace (a friend of his) comes to look after me. This place can be a bit guilt-inducing at times. I don’t really do any housework and when I do try to, I get pushed away. Not that I mind…

Tonight we set a few mousetraps because there is definitely one around. The traps here are these sticky pieces of cardboard with some bait in the middle. The mice get stuck and die. They use these ones because the mice have figured out the mechanical ones that snap on them.

One of the guys who lives in the house behind us was over tonight and he showed me how to work the infrared connection on my laptop. I’ve had this thing for almost four years and never used it, but it’s pretty cool. I sent some music to his phone. People here seem to love the Canadian women, particularly Shania Twain and Celine Dion.

As for work, I am working on different schedules for the school, which is more time-consuming than anything else. Tomorrow I have to do some research on books which means I’ll be at the internet café for most of the day. The other projects are more in the planning or reporting stages right now. Next week, I hope to spend a day riding around with the water tanker for deliveries.

I found out that BBC World News is on in the morning here and they do have sports. Yesterday, they showed highlights from the Leafs-Philly game, but that was it. You think if they were going to show some hockey, they’d at least give all the scores, but apparently not. That’s all.