Electricity

Today there was no electricity during the entire day.

I woke up at 7h30 as usually. Took my breakfast that here for some reason takes 30min (at home it would take 10min!) – I guess we just enjoy every single thing we do here.

At 9am I was at the office but without electricity. So I waited… and waited. Then I decided to do some work that could be done just with a notebook. It took me 20min and then there was nothing I could do again so I went home.

I couldn’t use my laptop because there was no power; I couldn´t use my phone to play because it was run out of battery. So I decided to read. But eventually I got bored. So I decided to take some time to reflect (something that doesn´t happen often back home once there is never time for it!). But again I got bored at the certain point. I wanted to go for a walk to get to know a bit more of Hohoe, but it was raining. So I decided to just listen to music once my Ipod had battery! That was when I realized how much we depend on electricity to do everything.

Eventually the rain stopped so I decided to go for a walk around Hohoe so I was out for about 2 hours just randomly walking. I had been wondering why was it that people seemed to randomly walk on the streets. Now I get it – it’s not necessarily because there is no electricity (because there usually is) but because they don´t depend that much on these kind of devices once most of the people in Hohoe cannot afford it.

02/08/2012