The light switch on the veranda just outside of our house would not come on. Steve bought a new switch but could not figure out how to rewire it so that all the lights would come on at the same time. This European electrical system is for the birds and everything is 240 instead of 110. Steve called Sayibu the electrician and he had it fixed in about 15 minutes.
Moses, one of the church leaders from Bakpaba, rode his bicycle to the mission house from his house this morning because he wanted to bring us a gift of yams. So sweet; it is probably 10 miles or so to his house. He was in a bit of a hurry because he said that he wanted to get home before the sun got too hot. It was very hot today; the high temperature was 110 degrees with a heat index of 113 degrees. Maybe someone will get rain tonight.
Today was the day to pay the taxes on the workers and the withholding tax. It took us longer than necessary to get online and generate the bills because we kept getting interrupted. After we finally got the bills we sent Mr. Iddrisu to town to pay them.
We talked to Mr. Iddrisu and Nazo about the gift we should give to the Balogu chief’s family as a way of showing sympathy and supporting the funeral. They decided that we needed to buy 220 pounds of shelled field corn and add some money to help with grinding the corn. The corn will be processed and used for food for the funeral. Steve and Meri worked at the Child Center while Zorash and I went to the market to buy the corn. Zorash thought that we should buy a long bag of cassava (220 pounds) to add to the corn. They use the cassava to stretch the corn to make TZ (stiff corn meal mush) so that they can feed more people. We had to put the corn in a burlap cocoa bean sack because it is tradition. There was a guy in the market that sewed the bags shut and loaded them in the truck for us. While we were in the market we bought some fermented corn and cassava dough and when we got back to the house Zorash and Amama cooked some Banku for me. The lady that we usually buy from has stopped making Banku. I have been in Ghana for 2 weeks and have not had any Banku to eat; this is just not acceptable!
Before we went to the market we went to the grinding mill and had the grains the ladies roasted last week ground into weaning mix. This afternoon when Red stopped by to get a pair of reading glasses he stopped to taste the weaning mix. He said that it was delicious!
Have a great day!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
