Today is our oldest son, Aaron’s birthday. We almost always miss his birthday but we will make up for it when we get home!
We went to Tamale this morning to drop off the audit. We thought that it was going to be easy but nothing is easy in Ghana when it comes to government offices. The government decided that all companies must re-register. When we were at the Registrar General’s office in August he told us that it was not time for old companies to re-register and that they were only working on the newer companies. We are happy that we asked the accountant that prepares the audit about it because he said that the deadline was the end of the year and then penalties would begin to accrue to the tune of 500 GH and 10 GH for each day the re-register was not completed. The auditor said he would get the form that we needed to fill out; we would sign it and he would have his secretary take it to the Registrar General’s office and file it while we are gone. Of course there will be a service charge but that is all we can do on such short notice. We will go back to Tamale tomorrow to sign the form. Hopefully he will be able to follow through with the plan.
Zorash was back at work today, after her trip to Accra to attend her niece’s wedding. It sounds like they had a grand time. Zorash came back with fake fingernails. Can you believe that fake fingernails have come to Ghana? Zorash said that they felt very strange and that it was hard for her to do her work. Her sister and daughter are living in the UK so they are exposed to all sorts of modern ideas.
We got back from Tamale about 4:00pm and immediately started loading the van and the truck with the things that we needed to take to the seminar. The pigs will be killed tomorrow and the ladies will start frying the meat. It is amazing that they do not get sick; they fry the meat on Wednesday and serve it on Thursday and Friday and it is never refrigerated. They keep it covered to keep the flies off of it but that is all they do for it; it just sits there in the heat.
Steve is busily working on the program for the seminar. He hopes to get it printed before we go to bed.
Take care and have a great day!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
