I live in Abura, a five-minutes taxi drive away from the central market area depending on the traffic. The house is a two-storey building with a balcony and a big courtyard. In this courtyard is a second building where another family lives. We only stay in the upper part of the house. I am not sure about all the persons who live downstairs. One of them is Florence with her daughter Angel and there are also two younger girls. My host mum is Agnes, who lives here with Ruth and Sofia, her grown-up daughters. Sofia has a two-weeks old daughter. Then there are many people coming and going regularly, for example an old lady and a brother of Florence and Isabella, another daughter of Agnes who studies at Cape Coast University. Kofi, an 18 years old boy is usually around the house as well, ready for orders like doing some shopping or whatever there is to do. I am not sure whether he is a relative. Agnes watches TV mostly or sits on the balcony. We volunteers have two rooms with two beds each, a table and a busy fan and a washroom with a real shower. Only from time to time there is no water. The balcony is a nice place to sit as you can see down the street and into the courtyards of the neighbouring huts where the families cook and wash and you are likely to catch a breeze there. A few houses to our left is a school. In the mornings I hear the children drumming on their tables and chanting. The evenings are long as it gets dark very early and there is little light on the streets. However, the day starts early enough to be tired by then. The first thing I hear in the mornings are various cocks and people get up at around half past five. Weekdays and weekends. When I walk down the street to the house or from the house, there are always children shouting Obroni!, running towards me, accompanying me a few metres, occasionally asking for some pesewas or a pen. Next to the gate of the house is the stall of a woman selling credit for mobile phones and biscuits and another one selling plantain. They always greet and ask where I am going so now and then we have a little chat.
