ANZAC Day

Left the hotel at 7.30am to attend the ANZAC Day service the High Commissioner has on, followed by brunch at the High Commissioner's residence. The three Australians from our group all went, Gerrard, Pipa, and I. The service was very nice, with a special visit from the Turkish ambassador in Ghana.

The brunch was spectacular, the best breakfast we have had since being here. Real bacon, beef and pork sausages, scrambled eggs, omlettes, baked beans, toast, and pancakes! Fresh watermelon or orange juice, lemon cake and of course, ANZAC biscuits in the shape of Australia. It was so good!

We met the French Ambassador who is looking forward to retiring soon and renovating a ruin he has purchased back in France. He was very interested in the IBM CSC program and whether it was also available in France, which of course it is. He thought this was a wonderful program that not only helped a developing nation, but would be very helpful in our careers as well.

We also met lady who started her work in Ghana 31 years ago as part of a Christian organization providing aid. Ghana today is nothing like what she landed in back then, and hearing her stories made me think how grateful I was that things had developed so far, and yet there is still so much more to be done. I also confirmed a number of risks and opportunities for our project through this conversation, so more data and references, yippee!

Back on the real work, more logging risks, will this never end? Looks like we will go into tomorrow as well, as long as we can start mitigation next week, we'll be alright. The room we had today only had an upright fan, no AC, so it was hot, hot, hot. Thankfully a storm came over and cooled things down for a few hours, it was another torrential downpour for an hour that then just stopped. Ghanaians are saying the weather is strange this year, it's usually not this hot, as it's usually raining all day, every day. It's been sunny nearly every day so far. At least with little rain, it keeps the mozzies at bay for a bit longer.

We made a visit to the Food and Drug Board today to keep gathering data for our risk plan, some great ideas came out of this.




To end the day, the seamstress/tailor came to the hotel to take our measurements and collect our fabric. I'm getting a tight little mini skirt that screams "tart", and a crop top so my mid riff can be all it can be, and free :). The seamstress thought a Ghanian shirt would probably make a bigger impression, and a dress for Natasha.

- Keep on Rockin'. Dwight.

Location:Eight Rd,Accra,Ghana