Almost time to leave Ghana...

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As I’m drawing toward to the end of my stay here I thought I’d write a list of things I will and won’t miss, to remind me of both the good and bad times!

I’ll list the things I will miss last to end on a more positive note!

Won’t miss:

• Obruni prices.
• Major traffic jams.
• Risk of falling into an open sewer at night.
• The smell of open sewers.
• The smell of burning rubbish.
• Being harassed by hawkers all the time.
• Ghana Man Time
• Being proposed to 10 times a day.
• Cold bucket showers.
• Not being able to flush the toilet.
• Lack of running water.
• Public toilets (especially pit latrines).
• Potholes, bad roads in general.
• Yam chips.
• White egg yolks.
• Rice.
• Mosquitos.
• DEET!
• Loud preaching on long-distance buses.
• People pissing right in front of you all the time.
• Getting filthy feet from walking around for half an hour.
• Constantly dirty nails.
• The general feeling of never being properly clean.
• Travelling in unroadworthy vehicles.
• Evaporated milk.

Will miss:
• Friendly people everywhere.
• Everyone in the street asking how you are.
• Random members of the public helping you and sticking up for you.
• Being able to buy anything and everything from the confines of a vehicle.
• Water sachets.
• Fan Ices!
• Cheap transportation.
• Free entry to clubs for being an Obruni.
• Plantain chips (the darks ones).
• Local bananas, mangos and pineapples.
• Cute lizards everywhere.
• Baby goats wandering the streets.
• Trotros.
• Slogans on trotros and taxis

• Cheap taxis.
• Being near the coast.
• Children giggling at you for being an Obruni.
• HERBERT!!
• Unexplained altercations on tros.
• Being able to shout “Bus stop!” to the mate when you want to alight.
• Being able to bargain the price of almost anything.
• The option of bribery.
• Police with automatic weapons pulling over your taxi at checkpoints, shining their torch inside, realising it is full of Obrunis and shouting “Obrunis, how are you?”
• Hilariously amusing and weird Nigerian films on STC bus journeys.
• Being able to trade unwanted items to get money off things.
• Funny signs.

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