Thursday, February 2

Today highlighted nicely why working from home is better than going into Kumasi every day. We had to go in to meet with someone at the office, which we did. But getting there and back took ages. In fact, it, along with the slow internet, took up a lot of the day.

I had some banku today for lunch, which I used to not like at all, but was so good. I am going to have to learn how to make this stuff, or find a West African restaurant back home. On my way back home after lunch, I got picked up by two guys in a pick-up while I was trying to get a tro-tro. They were engineers with the Ministry of Transport and really nice. I can’t say enough how good the hospitality is here. People really go out of their way to make foreigners feel welcome. It’s almost as if there is this unspoken code that every Ghanaian has to work their butt off to ensure no foreigner ever gets a bad impression of the country.

One minor complaint. The beer at lunch was pretty warm, which isn’t the end of the world, but when it’s 30, you don’t really want warm beer.

It’s now Friday morning. On the short walk (100m) from my house to the little kiosk to get some bread and sugar this morning, I probably said good morning to about 10 people, including some who shouted from some distance.