Well, due to some problems in the field that required “modern” facility (electricity to charge laptop battery, first and foremost), I had to come to Wa, the capital of the Upper West region of Ghana from my survey community (just over an hour’s drive south from Wa on local transport). While at Wa, the best place to recharge the battery is obviously the internet cafe, and I’m making full use of this opportunity by posting this “update”. Well, I’m alive and well and enjoying the “village life” for the past week or so. We (my survey enumerator and I) have a room at a fairly decent house in the village, and the land-lady cooks pretty decent meals with the ingredients that we give her every day. Work is hard, especially counting trees on a hot day, but very enjoyable due to the hospitality of the villagers. Fried or boiled yam to eat in most of the farms where the farmers and busy harvesting maize or rice! I just wanted to mention two strange/funny things that happened today.
1. When I was at the internet cafe checking my email and charging my laptop battery, one man came in holding the base unit of a desktop computer. He came in to use internet with it, which I wouldn’t have imagined until he started arguing with the girl at the front desk because he wasn’t getting served while I was surfing the net with my nice white laptop. He asked if he was being punished because he came with that big thing while people with small laptops were being served well.
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