*&$#@!^&*!! LIGHT OFF!

You think loosing power in New England during a winter storm is frustrating try loosing power randomly for no explained reason. Remember temperatures here are running between 22 and 35 degrees Celsius daily. So no electricity means: no fans, no office equipment working on campus and no refrigeration during the day and at night it is DARK. Now to top it all off the Volta Region 2 weeks ago (6 Jan) had a huge problem which caused a chain reaction throughout the country. Ghana was without power for most of a weekend! Now in Sunyani, they are building a new transformer which under normal circumstances should take 6 months. They are working round the clock to get it done by the end of January. As a result we have light off daily for 12 hours or more. Initially the rumor was we would have light for 2w days, dark for 2 nights. That is not how it has worked out. Tonight is the first night in 2 weeks we have had light so I am quickly creating e-mails and writing this update to put on my flashdrive in the hopes I can get to an internet café in the near future during a time when there is power. There is another phenomenon known as water off…yep tonight(17 Jan) no water coming from the indoor taps so I got my bucket and off to the outdoor spigot I went…