Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The people in the house
The house I'm staying in is nicknamed 'The AIESEC House'. It is made up of a series of single and double storey buildings. The family that owns the place occupies one of the single storey building while the rest of the buildings are rented out. The local AIESEC committee members rented for themselves and interns 2 out of the 3 double storey buildings to stay in. Interestingly, the rent payable is based on the number of beds, not the people or buildings involved. The rent is around 300 cedis p.a. per bed. So, besides the AIESEC members, there are other people living here too. Just yesterday morning, we played a game of soccer together. As for the AIESECers here, they are really friendly. Because the rent is payable based on the number of beds, they just rented enough beds for themselves. So when there is no interns each one of them will have a bed to themselves. But when there are interns, they will sleep on mattresses on the floor. The beds have mosquito nets on them so it's not that bad at night. Besides the local AIESECers, there are currently also interns from other countries staying in the house. They are here to work for the ASK project. Will elaborate more on the project another day. 2 of them are from Nigeria, Seun and Eric. Another from Germany, Marios (think that's how to spell his name) and the last one a girl from Japan, Hitomi. They are all here on varying length of time. Marios will be leaving early next month and Seun and Eric sometime after. Only Hitomi will be staying till next year feb. Besides them, there are a few more interns arriving over the next 2 weeks or so. Among them are 2 Japanese who will be based in Obuasi with me and a girl from China who will be working on another project. Funnily, yesterday the local AIESEC committee President, Bertrand who is in charge of managing the overseas intern was showing us the resume of this girl from China. Everyone was fighting to be the one to show her around. Hahaha, she looks quite chio in the picture!
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