Bob and I are quickly learning the value of having limits!
We've learned this by not recognizing them at first. Ghana is a "pay as you go" country and there is a certain beauty to that!
We are so used to bills being paid automatically with little thought of when and how they are being accumulated.
This is our electricity breaker box. When the electricity goes out, we wait to hear the generator go on then switch it up to access the generator. Eventually the generator goes off, that means the electicity is now on again, so we switch the handle back down to access the electricity. We need to be sure it is in electricity mode when we leave because otherwise the refrigerator won't be working once the electricity goes back on.
Our electricity is purchased in advance and this little box tells us now much electricity we have left.
If it runs out there is no more electricity. We can't use the generator either since that's not under our control. We are just "left in the dark".
We had made one trip to the company that sells electricity but didn't buy nearly enough. Sometimes $140 cedes sounds like a lot but that's really less than $50. If you bought your electricity in $50 increments you would be running to the electricity store pretty often.
Think about it!
Well, we were smart enough to check the electricity now and then and could see we would need more. However, we realized that the next day was a Ghana holiday which meant we would need to be very careful and hope it held out for another day. We used no A/C, turned off all the outlets, watched the lights, etc. We were blessed to make it through the Tuesday holiday, still have a fan during the night and just as it was getting light on Wednesday morning the electricity went off.
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| It was a rainy day so we didn't tackle the long walk to the electricity store, caught a taxi instead. |
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Nope! This isn't Bob!
He was on the phone so I had to respond when our number was called.
Whether it is our special Ghana "unlocked" cell phones
or the internet, we have to go through a "process" of adding credits that we buy on the street
1 comment:
I love your perspective. It is good to have limits. I need to have limit put on my food consumption....well that should exclude G's Dairy of course. Keep smiling!
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