Shower gel

South Africa out of the group Out of desperation, I was going to change some of the CONGER little US dollars that I had carried along so I could buy a new SIM-card and save myself from the phone hustle. Just before heading to the forex centre, I turned around to check one more time to see if I would find someone holding a placard with my name on it. Yes, finally I saw a gentleman holding a piece of white paper with Ameyah Debrah written on it. By the way, what's with all these foreigners always spelling my name as Ameyah instead of Ameyaw? I have googled that name a number of times and have come to realize that it is a popular Hispanic name. Anyway I soon found out that my chaperon was Charles Lamprecht, and later found out that he is one of the most punctual people in all of Johannesburg.

I was the first to arrive in South Africa out of the group and by 5.30 am, I had arrived at the Garden Court Sandton saying hello to my new bedroom. I immediately jumped into my bed to get some proper sleep. Well the proper sleep never came because in less than 2 hours later, I heard the hotel cleaners shouting '…house keeping! House keeping!' I guess no one told them I had just arrived. I went back to sleep for a few minutes and got up to have my first shower in the cold weather that I was still getting familiar with. I had breakfast and soon remembered that Mr. Lamprecht had hinted me that we would have a tight schedule during our stay in Johannesburg. So I decided to go to the Mall in Sandton City to get some warmer clothes and do some other shopping.

A bad Start After buying a few items and exploring the sheer magnificence of the mall, (I still doubt that I saw all the shops in that huge edifice), I realized that I was late for my pick up time from the hotel when I saw the clock at ABSA Bank, wherehaving fun at Sandton City I was changing some currency. Instead of adding two hours to my Ghana time, I relied on the automatic Johannesburg time setting on my Nokia phone, which for some reason was an hour late. I rushed back to the hotel, after getting lost a number of times and asking for direction to the hotel. There is no telling, I was late and I had missed the bus that was scheduled to pick me up.