>On Thursday I wrote the theory exam for the third time.
For some reason, the test was scheduled to take place in the new buildings for the licencing authorities instead of in a school as the other times. When we get there and some 35 of us are ushered into a unfinished concrete block, no windows or doors put in, no tables and chairs, animals grazing outside, it is like they know I am hoping to get a blogpost out of this experience.
And it only gets better: the crafty driving instructors help the licencing folks to carry benches into the “room” and soon they have also found a few tables. Women clean them with their hankies and quietly take their seat. We sit three and three on a bench and after 20 minutes everybody also have a table or a hardback book for writing support. 
The licencing officer gives instructions on a woodboard someone found outside and a nice breeze comes through the, erhm window-openings.
After 30 minutes I am done. Hoping I have done the writing for the very last time I pass a rooster on my way out.
So Yesterday, I call my driving school and finally get some good news – I have passed. Now, my instructor says in a happy voice, all you have to do is to wait for your practical exam date. And so this morning I get a call from the licencing office:
– Madam, April 16th at 8 am you have your practical test.
I don’t know if to laugh (because I have gotten this far) or cry ( wait seven weeks more…).
What do you think? Will I ever obtain my Ghanaian driver’s licence? Comments go below.
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