Happy Birthday Car!
Since this will be posted on Wednesday, by far the most important thing is this: Happy Birthday Carly! It’s been a long time since you had a birthday when I wasn’t around. Sorry! I love you dearly and miss you tons.
I made my first foray into Kejetia Market today with Dr. Addae’s friend, Pat. It is the largest open-air market in West Africa and on entering it, all I could think was “what is going to happen if there’s a fire?” It was so tightly packed and crowded. There was a fire a few years ago, but fortunately, it was during the night. As insane as it seems at first, it is fairly orderly, by Ghanaian standards, with similar things found in certain areas. We walked around for ages looking for a birthday present for Carly. This turned out to be in vain as I ended up buying the gift from a shop right beside where we got off the tro-tro.
From there, it was on to the office to work a bit on letters soliciting help and negotiating for facilities for the school of natural medicine. The long-term goal is to have our own campus, but for now, we’ll be using existing facilities. I also spent some time researching foundations that focus on water provision and will be drafting letters to send to them in the next week.
Dr. Addae always seems to misplace the keys to the office, so we put them on the key-ring with all the other keys yesterday. Today, we gave the keys to Pat to go home early. So we had to buy a new padlock for the office. Irony.
I had an interesting talk with Pat tonight. She told me about her German friend who came with her boyfriend and how she made him clean their clothes. Pat pulled him aside and told him not to, saying she would do it because that’s the way it is here. How am I going to adjust back to Canada?
I made my first foray into Kejetia Market today with Dr. Addae’s friend, Pat. It is the largest open-air market in West Africa and on entering it, all I could think was “what is going to happen if there’s a fire?” It was so tightly packed and crowded. There was a fire a few years ago, but fortunately, it was during the night. As insane as it seems at first, it is fairly orderly, by Ghanaian standards, with similar things found in certain areas. We walked around for ages looking for a birthday present for Carly. This turned out to be in vain as I ended up buying the gift from a shop right beside where we got off the tro-tro.
From there, it was on to the office to work a bit on letters soliciting help and negotiating for facilities for the school of natural medicine. The long-term goal is to have our own campus, but for now, we’ll be using existing facilities. I also spent some time researching foundations that focus on water provision and will be drafting letters to send to them in the next week.
Dr. Addae always seems to misplace the keys to the office, so we put them on the key-ring with all the other keys yesterday. Today, we gave the keys to Pat to go home early. So we had to buy a new padlock for the office. Irony.
I had an interesting talk with Pat tonight. She told me about her German friend who came with her boyfriend and how she made him clean their clothes. Pat pulled him aside and told him not to, saying she would do it because that’s the way it is here. How am I going to adjust back to Canada?
posted by Tony at 11:10 a.m.
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