Money Matters etc

my car arrived last night so this morning i went for a cruise around town. well actually i headed straight for our office complex and then to shoprite where you can get food and accessories. i needed cash so i had to try and recall the route to the money changers. i wasn't quite sure so i kept driving and driving and driving in the general direction and then voila! i saw a sign board turned in parked and went to do the changing.

now, the only part of ghana i dread is the currency. they re-denominated their cash and so it's a bit confusing. as my good friend blonca advised just think of it as spending dollars. actually, its a bit more than the dollar. the exchange is 1 - 0.96. bottom line when you give them dollars you get less in ghana cedis as its called. so every one ghana cedi counts. in the economics of scale, i haven't quite done a price comparison to see if things are cheaper here or not.

i went to do the bachelor shopping today. that's when you walk into a store and come out with things like a microwave, a power drill, knives, plates and cutlery. i forgot all about the pots , i think it's cos i don't plan on doing any cooking ( isnt that why the microwave was invented?). i'll complete it some other time with, curtains, sparse furniture and a washing machine!

a bit more about driving in ghana. it's a bit touchy. people maintain the speed lane. the minute i'm bounding behind some guy on the speed lane he quietly shifts over. it's so funny and unbelievable that people can actually obey road rules on their own. i cabled(sped) happily until i heard the speed beep in the car and i guiltily slowed down. i was 40 above the speed limit. it's so easy to get carried away because people are obeying the rules. you get to a round about and people give you your right of way. i vaguely remember something about giving way to traffic on your right or left? i think i have to brush up my road rules again, they actually use them here.