Tripping - Argument With Taxi Driver

[ad#ad-2]Tomorrow I’m working in Cape Coast. I’m not amused. One of our volunteers there is causing trouble. I’m doing damage control. Our volunteers, one out of ten of them acts matured. The rest of the time it’s just like running a nursery school. It’s the pettiness that kills me. Anyways so I’m working in Cape Coast tomorrow, If I wake up.

Today, I worked on the refugee camp. Getting there was a 45 minute drive. I go there every Thursday on evaluation visits with our volunteers there. How things have changed! We now have volunteers who seem happy with the improvements we’ve made. Last year I had to deal with the devil and her cohorts. It wasn’t pretty, I had just been employed. Dumped into incredible chaos.

Today, only one out of the three camp NGOs, I scheduled meetings with was available as assured. Then, I had to run around the camp looking for the second person because she wasn’t where she said she would be. The third person was out of coverage area.

This morning I had an argument with the taxi driver I took to work. He wanted me to pay more. It’s very annoying when a taxi driver does that. I got to the road side flagged him and told him where I was going.

“2.50″, he said.

“I’ll give you 1.50″, was my response. Read the rest of this entry