Day in Obuasi

Had my first full day in Obuasi today. Marius the intern from Germany was here today with Eric to discuss details of the opening ceremony with Phillip. Marius remarked that he envied me as he loves greenery and Obuasi is surrounded by hills and forests unlike Kumasi which is basically a big urban sprawl. Kinda agree with him as Obuasi is a much smaller city, with fewer people and traffic making it much less noisy and chaotic. Spent much of the day walking around the city with Phillip. He basically went around the municipal office introducing me to the various officials to facilitate me working with them in the future should the need arises. Met a great deal of people and I can't remember half their faces or names. Will have to work on it! Besides that we also visited some schools to confirm their attendance at the opening ceremony and participation in the ASK project. I realised that there's only so much that can be done here in a day as we spent much of the time walking and looking for people. Communication is a issue here. In Singapore if we wanna do something, we will probably drop the person a email or make a call to arrange a appointment. But here you just go the place and see if the person's around or not. Tough luck if he/she's not around. Come back another day. So I'm still in the process of getting used to doing things here at their pace. Slowly I'm adjusting to the life here.