Friday, 15 July 2011

Another Day, Another 100 Cedis

An email from an American friend. Subject line: "Yet another interesting day in Ghana."

I have a crazy story to share...I was sound asleep last night and was woken up by 2 screaming men around 2am.  There was alot of cursing in English mixed with Twe (the local language).  I eventually fell back to sleep then started dreaming (actually it was more of a nightmare) about fighting because of what I heard.  Turns out a tenant that lives on the top floor of my building came home around 1am with a "commerical worker" (thats what they call prostitutes here) and then because he hadn't paid his electricity bill he didn't have any power in his apt so he got into an argument with the prostitute because she said she couldn't "work" without any lights, so the tenant went and woke up the landlord yelling at him to get the power back on.  Note every tenant pays their own electricity bill.  So the landlord and the drunk tenant go into a screaming fit and meanwhile the prostitute left without servicing the tenant and everyone in the building was disturbed by the noise and commotion.  I'm quite tired today as a result but it makes for a great story and another adventure here in Ghana!

The first week I was here I saw several very attractive women sitting alone at the restaurant of a hotel frequented by expats. Thought they might be travelers from other parts of Africa. Another evening I saw several more young women dressed in nice, albeit short dresses at a restaurant. Took me months and confirmation from a saavy friend to figure out they're working girls.  

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