In Akosombo… week 2

Don’t remember where I left off here now…

It’s been a week. A long one. Seems like everything’s passed by rather slowly, rather easily, successfully. That’s good. Nothing too exciting, nothing too new, everything’s slow but yeah. I can finally say I’ve got everything I need to do here in Akosombo, academics-wise. Got my background data, statistics, history, rainfall, max, min temp, relative humidity, water elevation, emailed Dr. Disney… yeah… just got to wait to get back to Accra to visit the survey office. This Monday marks the start of my adventure. Ha! Yeah, we get on the Yapei Queen.

A brief report on what’s been happening:

Mon: I got to Akosombo. U read that before.

Tue: Think I got to meet Victoria, a Korean volunteer at the Korean computer school cum church… went on the net, had lunch and went to her place with her. They all though I was Korean and started conversing with me in Korean…

Anyway, the rest of the week went like that. Meet people in the morning at the office (Volta River Authority), the environment office, the surveyors and talked about Ghana, Singapore, London, the world, religion and everything… was nice. Ghanaians are very friendly. Akosombo’s a great quiet, peaceful, hot town… beautiful but difficult to move around without a vehicle… why can’t we drive???

The sights are amazing. I got to go the the President’s Country House at the top and on the other side of the gorge and looked down at the whole town. Silly me was so awestruck that I din take my camera out to snap shots of it. But it’s a nice place with cable tv and peas in white rice… nice place that reminds u of a condo showroom.. simple condo showroom in Singapore… a lot of wood.. so future ministers and so on… if u ever come to Ghana, u may well be invited to stay here!

All the other times, I’m at Mr Kwakye’s house, at the top of the hill, the management quarters… it’s a nice place. Very big and very quiet.

I’ve pounded fufu, tried banku and abolu… But I think my appetite’s not been good. Maybe I should go back to mineral water instead of local taps…

Was in church on Sunday with auntie and grace… pity I only understood half of what was happening. The other half was in twi…but the music and singing’s good.. not as wild as I expected it to be though…

Ok. Next update… Tamale… :)