Getting acclimatized

Sooo since Im writing this you already figure correctly: I have safely arrived. 

The weather is actually nice, it's not too hot (probably because it has been cloudy all day) but incredibly humid. It felt like the humidity has been 150%. The hotel im staying is pretty chill and I have an air conditioner in my room which really helps.

My mission for today was to get a SIM card to be able to find the stuff I want in the city, calling Uber Taxis, getting in touch with couchsurfing people and so on and so forth. Long story short: It was a huge mess. In the end Solomon, the brother of the hotel owner helped me. Helping means in this case walking to 7 different small stores who all sell credit for the SIM cards but not the cards themselves until we found one who got them. Then he registered for me since that only works with an Ghanaian ID. Then he spent an hour on setting this up on my phone (no its not plug and play) to figure out that there is a problem. Then we went together to a proper store of the SIM card provider 'by car'. Going by car means you have trucks in the size of a VW T3 which only starts driving when atleast 12 people are in. Everyone seems to know which car is going where but not able to explain it to me. Maybe I'll understand it later. Anyway, we went to the store of the SIM card provider and somehow they fixed it, so I now got mobile data 🤘🤘🤘

Thanks Solomon, you are the greatest!

All the people here seem to be super open hearted and nice. All of my 5 couchsurfing requests got accepted and that's in the capital where its usually extremely hard to couchsurf - I am amazed. 

So, enough text here are some pictures:

This is a normal dish for one person. Both, Solomon and I, were full afterwards and we got there hungry.. It was crazy spicy tho, I ate it crying in years with a running nose.

Animals on the street are super common here (note the goats in the background). I also saw a Hen with atleast 8 small chickens but didnt take a picture.

Buuuuuut not everything is super cool, what's really sad is the pollution here. I dont think public trash cans even exist. People just litter on the street.

So what you see here is a pipe coming out of a house. Usually those pipes go to canals but I really doubt those canals are going anywhere. It just all stays there and evaporates. The pipe in the picture above just goes right to the soil.

And this lake - there also goes a pipe in. I would bet that this lake is made by the house from which the pipe comes from..

I think its just a matter on definition what exactly is 'here'. Maybe its just prohibited to litter 5 cm in front of the sign?

Oh and yeah random fires? Not uncommon. People have barbeques on the street, sell the food and dump the coal in the street where it simmers and burns.

Tomorrow I'll move from the hostel to a couchsurfer and I'm super excited!