So much has happened since the last blog I wrote, crazy that that is only 5 days ago... I will tell you about it in two blogs, since (as most of you know) it's quite a challenge for me not to use too many words describing my experiences when I'm excited. Driving into Kumasi was very interesting, I am just so fascinated by the many contrasts of Ghana as I said earlier. Along the way into Kumasi you see houses of all different styles; from wooden planks put together, to cement built houses, containers, houses without roofs, with roofs, windows or no windows, everything is blend together. In Kumasi I was picked up at a bus station by someone that works for Bernice Dapaah at the Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF). Bernice, whose house I'm staying at, is the founder and CEO of Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative, a very inspirational woman (she's going to the USA soon to be recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of African descent, how cool!!). The Ghana Bamboo Bike Initiative that I'll be working with is one of the many projects that falls under the BGCF. So, I got in the taxi to go to Bernice's house. She lives in a very nice neighborhood, in a 5 bedroom house with a big gate around it. The drive there was interesting, as the road to her house goes from an asfalt road, to a sandy path, to something you can't even call a path; it has more holes than anything else but the taxi will still drop you off in front of the gate.. I wonder how some of these taxi's still function haha (most of them literally look like they're just parts of 10 different cars put together to construct a half functioning new one). But so I got to the house and there is 2 other American girls living there as well (one doing research at the hospital and one working at BGCF), along with Bernice's daughter Akua (a-kee-ya), and the nanny/housekeeper Rita. Bernice's mom is also usually around to help taking care of Akua. After settling down a bit that night, I went to 'the office' the next morning! Hilarious how this went. The plan was to eat breakfast 8:15am so we would leave at 8:45. This is what actually happened:
7:30 - I woke up 8:05 - I was ready to eat breakfast 8:45 - We actually ate breakfast 9:45 - We left to take a taxi to the office 10:30 - We were at the office 11:30 - The wifi started working so we could do work, which in this case was finding a place to stay for the weekend since we were going to Cape Coast because there was a big festival happening (see next blog). We thought we booked something through booking.com but when we booked the place it turned out the unsubscribed from that a year ago and they didn't actually have a place for us, so we learned if you want to book a place, you just have to call that place directly and not use the websites.. 12:30 - Lunch break, I ate redred as they call it, I really liked it, it's very flavorful red colored rice usually served with chicken or fish and some lettuce (I uploaded a picture below). Then, as we were about to go back in the office, someone walked by with coconuts so, no work yet... Time to drink & eat a coconut! 4pm - Time to go home because we had to get ready to take the bus to Cape Coast, where we were going to spend the weekend. It was not a real day of work obviously because it was almost weekend and I hadn't technically started yet, but still, definitely a different way of how things go... On Monday I will meet Bernice so that's when I'll also get a better idea of what exactly I will be working on :-)
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