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Everything becomes so normal after a while. No longer is there something new going on all the time. No longer does it bother me to wait an hour for the simplest things. The food that was a constant source of surprises, is now merely good food. The interactions with people
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The unbearable lightness of waiting. Time is different here. So close to the 0 meridien, Ghana is on GMT. But it is a different GMT. Ghana Maybe Time. The difference is, in a sense, trivial. Everything just takes more time. I'm writing this in front of Ecobanks HQ
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It's funny, the rainy season. The pure regularity of the weather. I remember it from other places. Like the Galapagos Islands. Perched as they are, on the equator, surrounded by a thousand miles of undisturbed, weather regulating ocean they must have one of the most predictable climates I
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Close to 4 weeks on the ground, and I still don't speak Twi...... Not a word of it. Well maybe a word, but that's really it. To compensate for my obvious failings in that direction, I have decided not to learn how to drum either. Or
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Last night The Geekhalla Trivia Team, a select group of 5 Geeks, selected carefully from amongst the inhabitants of Geekhalla, won a sweeping victory over other trivia contenders, at the Champ's Sports Bar Thursday Trivia Challenge. The team got of to a scorching start, when they established their
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This is a challenge. Here I am, probably about 5000 km away from home, working in a tech industry that may be globalizing fast, but is still completely different to anything I know from home. AfricaExpress Communications Network is where I've spent the past 2 weeks, and where
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A quick thank you to slashdot for accepting Jasons post on saturday. The result was an incredible 16,000% increase in page-requests compared to saturday the week before. Now I can convince myself that all those people visited because of my birthday!!! Also thanks to ABC, for a very nice
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To all of you avid followers out there: This Saturday (February 10th) is my birthday. I will be 27 years old. For that reason I am throwing a little informal party at our geek home Geekhalla. So, if you are in Accra on Saturday, please feel free to drop by
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7 a.m. That was the first night down here where i really didn't sleep well at all! We've gone 2 days practically without running water. There is a tank out back where you can get a bucket of water to wash with, but my luxurious
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It's different on a sunday the smells are different, the sounds are different, the people are the same. It's different on a sunday less lively, less of a big city. but the people are the same. It's different on a sunday the multitude of
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Is it tuesday already? Or is it only tuesday? It seems like so much has happened in such a short time. One moment I feel like I've been away for a month, the next I wonder how what feels like one long day in Ghana has suddenly bridged
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For 10 days in North Adams, we've been told not to expect to much, to lower our expectations, and never forget that what we find perfectly normal back home, may be entirely different out here. One night and one day into Accra, and I can't remeber