OVERSEAS 9 - Our Accommodation

We stayed in the World Vision accommodation which was really very civilised. We had a petrol driven generator for electricity (though various light bulbs were not working) and the girls from the local school brought us water for our bucket showers. There was a toilet which you flushed with a bucket of water and beds with a sheet (no pillow case, but you can't have everything).

The food was cooked by the Pastor's wife. Ghanaian food is enormously labour intensive and we had fufu, TZ, banku, guinea fowl and jollof rice. All Ghanaian staples.

Plucking the guinea fowl.                                                      Peeling the yam.

Making a drink for the attendees from ginger and millet.         Pounding fufu made from boiled yam.

I shared a room with a Muslim lady called Ramatu who preferred to sleep either outside or on the floor. Every morning she would appear at 5.30am to wash before her early morning prayers. It was a pity the screen door was so squeaky! Ramatu preferred to poo in the scrubland rather than use the toilet. She calls this "free ranging" and it’s very common amongst Ghanaians. However, when she nearly trod on a large snake she began to rethink this plan. We spotted several snakes and the men killed one as you can see in the picture.