Right now I’m sitting on a bus on its way to my new hometown, Takoradi. By so far, it has been interesting experience. I arrived to the ”bus station” around 9am. A local friend helping me to get around bought me a ticket and told me to take a seat. And then, 45 minutes later when the bus was finally full, it departed. No schedules, the bus leaves only when it’s full, and it can take a while, and obviously the doors are open so it gets very hot in the ”air-conditoned” bus. People come and go, there are lots of people selling stuff like mentos, drinks, pizza, bread and so on and they enter and exit the bus constantly. So loud, so confusing, passengers sitting down but then running out of the bus to buy some last minute things. So, 45 minutes of this - people going back and forth, parents lecturing tp their children who constantly run away from the bus as they are bored, people selling the most random things, oh and one bling guy praying for us. Have to say, I wasn’t bored while I was waiting for the bus to leave, and I do love people watching so this was kinda cool. The only thing bothering me was, or is, the heat. The bus is sort of air-conditioned, but still feels like very humid sauna.
And when the bus left, one of the passengers got up and started singing some sort of religious song and the others joined him. ”God bless you” said the passenger next to me, so I guess we all are now safe on this journey. Now the same man has been preaching something for about 20 minutes, and I wonder if he will keep doing this for the whole 4 to 7 hours. If I only could understand what he’s saying.. Onnibus from Helsinki to Jyväskylä is going to feel so basic and so boring after this.
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