Day 30
Well, I guess that there was never a dull moment here in Ghana. Today was our last day. We didn’t have anything planned besides going to lunch with our tour guide from the beginning of the week. In the morning we went to the post office for some stamps and then to the bank to go to an ATM. That didn’t take as long as planned so we had 2 hours until we had to meet Emanuel for lunch. We walked around and asked a few local people where there was an internet café. We found one and hung out there for 45 minutes. When we walked outside to get a taxi to go to the ‘Planters Lodge’, we found one who would take us there for cheap. When we got in he asked us where we were going for the day and we told him that we were going to planters lodge and then we were going to vodaphone, which is a wireless café. He said that he wanted to take us everywhere and he would wait for us. So we thought that was so nice of him and he was doing everything for cheap. When we got to Planters Lodge it was a resort and it was SO incredibly nice. Of course all of us were wearing gym shorts and a tee shirt so when we walked into the restaurant we didn’t really fit in. When we walked into the restaurant Emanuel wasn’t there yet so we sat down and looked at a menu and waited for him. When we walked in and sat down, our taxi driver followed and sat down as well. We were really confused as to why he did that but oh well. When we looked at the menu everything was so expensive, we had already spent so much money in Ghana, so we decided to get a few dishes and split them. Emanuel eventually joined us as we were getting our food, we got some wings and then chicken and rice. Our taxi driver didn’t order anything, but Emanuel ordered some special fried rice, which looked amazing. We sat around for a while and didn’t realize the time. We had to get going because we still needed some time to go to the internet café before on ship time. We asked for our bill and when it came it was 127$. We didn’t know where this came from but then we looked and our taxi driver had gotten food to go. And when we looked at the bill, he got the same thing as Emanuel, and each of theirs was 32$. We all split ours and we were set, but when the taxi driver had to pay, he said that he had no money. So we refused to pay for him. And he was saying that he would make a deal with us for the taxi, but we had no money, only enough for the original price he told us. Emanuel tried settling this and the taxi driver wasn’t correlating with anything. He was being stubborn and saying that he wasn’t paying for his food. Finally Emanuel said that he would pay for it. We felt so bad. He also ended up paying the taxi driver extra money so that he would take us where he was going and leave us alone. He was trying to rip us off and that’s why he wanted to join us so that he could get himself a free meal. It was so stressful and made us feel bad for Emanuel. After we hugged Emanuel goodbye and thanked him for everything he had done we went to the internet café for an hour and then went back to the ship. We stopped at the market one last time and bought a few things but nothing special. When I got on the ship and swiped my card a notice popped up on the screen that said ‘call security.’ So the guy in charge of checking our bags called security and told me to step aside. I had no idea what was going on. Security came out and told me that I was picked for a random drug test. Of course this would happen to top off my day. I went and took my drug test and it came back negative, which I had no doubt about, it was just something to add to my day of interesting stories. Now it’s 6 days until South Africa! Oh I forgot to mention in the previous posts about my experience of eating Plantain’s. They are like banana’s, and when we ate dinner at our tour guides house we had fried plantains. They weren’t as good as I thought, everyone loved them, but I wasn’t a fan. I really liked the plantain chips though! Those were so good. There were two different kinds, there were ones that were yellow and then there were ones that were brown, I liked the brown ones better, they were more sweet.
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