You may or may not recollect that DVLA Part 3 was due to take place today. On Friday it was postponed to tomorrow and today it was postponed until… well no one knows entirely. The problem? The damn machine and the damn man who seems to be the only man in West Africa who knows how to fix it. He is always ‘travelling’, the Ghanaian way of saying he’s out of town. Permanently. My frustration led to a conversation in the office today. ‘You will get used to this system, but I tell my brother today, you not ready yet, you don’t know. Someone needs to tell you, so I will. The system here in Ghana is simple. When someone asks you for 5 cedi and you give it to them, your receipt will show 1 cedi. Always the receipt will be different but don’t question it, no! This is the system. The DVLA, they are corrupt’. Better tell Baba to pay more cedi then….
I'm off to work in Ghana for a year with the Ghanaian Education Service supporting Science teachers in the Upper East Region to do more practical and active lessons for the extraordinary number of students they have per class! It's organised through VSO. The work they do is fantastic and I feel very privileged to be able to help. Thought I'd blog my exciting adventure...
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