TIG

Recently one of the interns coined this word - TIG (This is Ghana). We generally used it to refer to situations whereby we are at a loss of words to explain what's happening and simply have to accept that its happening because we are in Ghana (Africa is interchangeable with Ghana here). Encountered this moment just now. This particular school have for the past 3 weeks been informing us at the last minute that we cannot do the session for the week due to various reasons. So we are now seriously behind schedule for that school not to mentioned pissed off at the last minute changes and we cannot indefinitely extend the project just for the benefit of one school. So me and Tomoki went down to the school to attempt to find a solution. There was no one around the school as they had all gone for their athletics meet this week. Managed to find one teacher and she 'agreed' to allow us to do 2 sessions next week to make up for lost time. Not sure if she can make the decision but having someone agree to something is better than nothing I feel. Also we wanted to find out when is the end-of-semester test (to avoid future clash of schedule) and the TIG moment occurred. She has no idea! WTF! At another school earlier, they were not sure of the exact date too. Its gonna be held sometime in Dec. The exact date is a mystery. In fact they are not sure if its gonna be a uniform date for all the schools or not. Can you believe it? I wonder how the students are suppose to prepare for it. Kind of makes you question the professionalism of the education service here in Ghana huh. Anyway this means that we will have to make a trip down to the education service department in Obuasi to sort out the mess. More work :(