Tuesday May 14^th 2013. 10:15am

Monday was our first day of work and we got introduced to what felt everyone who works for Jospong.  We also got a chance to see a few of their projects and learn more about what we will be doing.  We are going to working on a seven story composite steel/concrete structure, called the PUC building.  I have already noticed that things here move at a very different pace, and schedules just don’t exist.  I have also noticed that the cell phone is king here in Ghana.  People will stop a conversation for their phone and I even noticed people stepping out of church service on Sunday morning to take calls.  Today we showed up for an 8:00 am meeting only to find out it has been cancelled, but it gave us a change to find an ex-pat coffee shop with free Wi-Fi.  As a major exporter of coffee, it is very hard to get a decent cup of coffee; maybe the heat is just too much to be drinking a hot beverage.  Also the only people who smoke here are ex-pats, smoking is akin to hard drugs in Ghanaian society and no one smokes in public.   Sorry this post is so disjointed, but those are some of my first observations of life in Ghana.  Hopefully I will be able to find a regular stable source of internet in the near future.

Happy Late Mother’s Day!

Johnny