Tuesday May 14th 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
Very interesting. Keep them coming.
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