Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Friday, April 27, 2012
Bonjour, It has been another crazy day in the Consford household. We went into town this morning to go grocery shopping. We also got some bulk things. The…
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Bonjour,
It has been another crazy day in the Consford household. We went into town this morning to go grocery shopping. We also got some bulk things. The kids were excited to get to go inside the walk-in freezer; they were even more excited that Ahmed gave them each some ice cream.
On our way home, we hit a big pothole. When we got home, we discovered that there was a leak in one of the AC pipes.
The rest of Joe's temporary filling came out of his tooth. The tooth was really bothering him. He went in search of a dentist. The first place that he went, the dentist wasn't in. Next, he tried the hospital. Their dentist had gone to a funeral. They sent him to a dental clinic. After waiting for quite a while, he did see a dentist and was able to get another temporary filling. The dentist told him to come back in two weeks for a root canal. Joe will probably go to Accra to find a different dentist for the root canal; this place was not very clean.
While Joe was gone, the power went off. I went out to swim with the kids. As we were coming back inside, there were some men sitting on the wall behind the house. They wanted to talk to me. I went inside to change my clothes and then went back out to see what they needed. They said that they needed to do something on our electric pole so that they could replace the lines down at the bottom of the hill. I assumed that they were with the electric company.
Joe had called the electric company. They said that someone had reported that the transformer in Kansaworado (our neighborhood) was on fire. There wasn't a fire. Someone had hired independent contractors to fix the problem with the downed lines to avoid having to pay the electric company. They needed to have the power turned off to do their work; so, they reported a fire.
Whatever the men did on our pole has messed our power up. All three phases have low voltage. So, we are back on the generator. Hopefully we can get things squared away tomorrow.
Joe got home about 7:00 this evening from the dentist. Then, he had to leave at 7:30 to go to a wake for the grandfather of one of the men in the church. He got back home a little after 10:00.
A demain,
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie