Packing this morning was pretty hectic! We had to get every last item out of
our dorm rooms in Sunyani so we could check out and head to Kumasi for the
night. Once we had everything
packed into the cars, Mike and Clayton headed to Kumasi immediately to work on
troubleshooting the generator for the Kwame Yeboah Krom. Mollie, Chelsea, and Helena stayed with
Emmanuel in Sunyani for much of the day completing last minute errands.
First we dropped Chelsea off at the hospital so she could
get information from him about the medical needs of the region, as well as to
collect Mollie’s medical report from her stay at the Sunyani hospital. Then we dropped Helena off in the main
market for her to pick up a few items.
Finally, Emmanuel and Mollie visited the District Assembly to deliver
the shipment allocation to the director and to receive reimbursement for the
shipment costs. When we were all done with our errands we all went to meet the
Regional Minister (similar to Governor of a state).
We had been trying to fit our schedules to a time he could
meet with us since our arrival, and we finally got it right. After waiting about half of an hour for
his meeting to finish up, we got to finally greet the Regional Minister on
behalf of the team, and all of Pavlis.
We took a picture with him and the Sunyani MCE and then went across the
street to have lunch with them.
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| Emmanuel, Helena, the Regional Minister, Mollie, the MCE of Sunyani, and Chelsea |
During that time Mike, Clayton, Peter and Govina were
nursing the truck back to Kumasi with the generator. We switched trucks in
Kumasi, so that Govina could get his truck properly fixed and we took off into
the magazine. After fighting the usual stop and go traffic, we were directed to
another electrician within the magazine who could check the health of our
generator. After a few test the electrician told us that our problem was
actually much simpler than we thought. The generator salesman told us the wrong
neutral wire, and we had been using two live wires to check the voltage with
light bulb, giving twice the required voltage. After seeing the generator light
up a bulb using the correct wires, we knew everything was okay, and we set off
to buy Peter a voltmeter so that he can check the generator at the site with
more than a light bulb.
That night we were all in Kumasi again and as it was our
last night there, Emmanuel and his family put on a party at their house with
the whole family as well as some of Emmanuel’s students. There was a delicious array of Ghanaian
dishes including jolof rice, fufuo, goat soup, chicken soup and plain rice with
a red sauce. For dessert, Mollie
baked an apple crisp because we found out that Adjoa’s (Emmanuel’s wife’s)
favorite American food is apple pie.
It went very well with the vanilla ice cream and fresh mango slices that
were also being served!
After dinner, dancing was the theme of the night, and with
our friend Govina as DJ, it was hard to keep from tapping your toe to the
music. Luckily we had some help
form the Ghanaian youngsters in learning the newest dance style in Ghana,
Azonto. The stars of the night
were Emmanuel’s four kids though, because they were all getting in on the fun
of dancing, even Kwaku at only 13 months of age!
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| Kwaku |
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| Mike, Clayton, and Yaw eating ice cream |
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| Mike and Clayton, with their electrician friend, Peter |
Written by Mollie and Mike
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