Sunday, March 26, 2006

First few weeks... or is it days?

The atmosphere here is very relaxing! The heat makes any kind of walking fast or running impossible. Everybody takes their time to get from point A to point B, and when they arrive at point B there is no rush in getting off towards point C. Generally point B is the shade under a dense tree, where spending the rest of the day is not unusual... This is of course under the condition that you are not working, but even when you're at work you tend to let things take their time.
Me and Mrs have also realized that Ghana is a sort of time warping zone. Yesterday, for example, we took a taxi to the fishing harbour where we walked around for quite some time, looking at boats, nets, people and plenty of fish. We were offered all kinds and sizes of fish, but ended up with nothing more than a coconut each that we drank us unthirsty from. Anyway, after this little daytrip of ours we came home thinking we've spent a nice day out, only to find that only a couple of hours had passed! The same phenomenon has made us feel as if we already have spent a few weeks here, although it's only been two days.
Anyway, I'll write detailed reports of the last few weeks, sorry, days soon! Just wanted to give you a general feeling first.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Mats and Tina! :0) Great to hear from you guys. How are you doing? Tina, have you gotten to see any schools yet?

I can't say I'm not jealous - I bet you're having an exiting time - and you are missing one of the longest winters here too ;) (Though to be fair, the weather has been lovely the past week)

I'm packing tonight - I'm going for a week to Poland, to visit a friend in Gdynia - so that is great. I'm fine otherwise too ;)

Take care and keep writing! I'll be sure to keep an eye on the blog.

Love/
~Linda~

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