One bit of becoming an expat, is the fact that you also need to learn not only to adopt to the country you live in, but also be adaptive and aware of cultural differences you will encounter abroad, as expat community is like a miniature world, stuck in one city. So small, that despite the fact that you all live in a capital of 4+ million people, you still feel like it is a village.
Many people will disagree with me, but dating in expat community is close to impossible. 50% of people are here with their spouses, 10% have them home and they do not hide it, 30% have their spouse at home countries and they do not ever mention them, 5% are into local opposite sex and this leaves us with 5% single population in this small, small, small expat village.
Here in Accra, that 5% of population seems to have slept with each other on their 1st year here. Latter on, it is re-runs or a new country! ;)
Since the options here are low to nothing [we have Arab population, which we all know - will lead nowhere, then we have various Asian communities, which hardly ever speak English or come in as one person at the time, and then we have Commonwealth drunken bachelors, busy watching football and playing litre-ball.], I decided to challenge myself and go for the one continent I have not yet visited - hence Latin America!
Few Spanish speaking events latter over the last few months, spot on - I find one out of possibly other 50 members of his country here in Ghana! ;) We danced, met friends, had couple of drinks, changed bars, watched the sun come up... It all went well till the day after, when we were due to have lunch together, which never happened. Three days down the line, still nothing, which means - he is out!
The question thou remains - did I do something wrong? Does it require to sleep with a guy on the 1st night to actually get a date!?
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