A Day in Accra, Ghana (Tuesday, November 27, 2012)

Tro-Tro (beaten up minibus made out of an old van) for 4 km trip moving slower than the walkers streaming past us avoiding the traffic nightmare that is Accra, $0.25.

Workshop on inclusive education and students with special needs. Committed, passionate civil society members and civil servants.

Workshop starts at 10. Agenda says firm start at 9.

Indignantly insisting on being the meeting note taker after a female participant asked me to especially after she was scolded by a male colleague who told her that you don’t delegate work upwards.

Ghanaian art gallery with amazing paintings and sculptures. Beautiful pots as low as $10.

Delicious skewers of sausage (thick hot dog would be a better description) from a charcoal brazier sitting beside an open air bar while enjoying a cold beer with Janna. Sausage, $0.75, 1 litre of beer, $2.50.

First place at pub quiz.

Taxi home without seatbelts for 5 km, $3.00.

A man wrestling on the edge of the road with a fully clothed man, wearing nothing but his underwear late at night.

Bouquet of raw sewage wafting up from the open trenches running along every road.

Buying eggs and freezies of frozen strawberry yoghurt called Fan-Go from a shop built inside a shipping container. Eggs, $0.17 each, Fan-Go, $0.50. 

TV show via the wonders of online streaming.