What is GMT? My guess is most of you reading this immediately thought Greenwhich Mean Time. This is accurate, but is not what I am getting at. In our context for the next two years GMT means "Gambian Maybe Time."
A short example...
Yesterday we went on trek with RDI to visit some of their students on practical. We were supposed to get picked up at 9am. Normally, this means anywhere from maybe 9am to noon. However, in our case it ended up meaning getting picked up at 8am. We had just woken up, had not changed, had not eaten breakfast, and by no means were we ready for the day. Of course when this happened the two Gambians waiting for us were thoroughly unexcited to be waiting for us to get ready. Regardless of how annoyed Gambians will get when they show up and we are not ready for them, whenever they are three hours late for a meeting no one so much as says sorry.
Gambian Maybe Time. How I loathe you...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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It's good to know the hypocrisy about timeliness is a universal.
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