The Search for Cheese

hey everyone so there really isnt a story attached to title rather more or less a reality. i can get the excellent wagashi cheese in the market fairly easy but spreadable cheese does exsist here and i can get it its just expensive its sold in this package and they are just little triangles of cheese that has the consistancy of butter, but you can whip up a pretty damn close mac and cheese, note this does not under any circumstances mean that i want annies mac and cheese any less. please please send annies mac and cheese or any other sauce packet, or if you can find it hte cabot cheddar cheese shaker, i realize this may be hard to find but it is out there if i can find pizza in benin consider it your personal crusade to find a cabot cheddar cheese shaker in order to help your poor peace corps volunteer. any amount of guilt tripping to get you do to this is intentional, and should be taken seriously.
anyway... so i go to the grocery store, this is more like a over stocked storage area, not a grocery store. like someone took a shed and put a bunch of groceries in it. i dont walk around inside looking at stuff because its so packed i just tell the people working what i want and they get it for me. so ive been craving mac n cheese since monday so i think to myself, well ill just buy some cheese reward myself for one month down, so i mosey on over to the grocer and they dont have cheese, figures, but theyll have it tomorow, i go before noon on tuesday, they dont have it theyll have it in the evening, i go back in the evening they dont have it theyll have it tomorow. i check at least on a daily basis and this happens until yestarday, friday where i find another grocery place across the street and they have it, figures. theyve had it all week long. but not my grocery woman who sells everything else under the sun. but the concept of time and what it means is vastly different here. in the states if you said i have a meeting at 2pm when do you show up for this meeting? im sure some of you are saying early, 1;45 just to be on the safe side, or if you feel like it you show up at 1;55 youre rushed at 2;00 and late by 2;15. in benin you could show up for a meeting at 2pm at 3;30 and thats fine, and people actually laugh at me when i show up for meeting at the specific time, they say i show up at 2 zero zero, and that im such an american for doing so. i then remind then that if i showed up to an important meeting one hour late i might not have only missed the meeting but i also might not have a job, they think this is funny and laugh and dont believe me. oh well. the same type of standard applies to everything, so when i was told that they were going to get cheese in either the next day or in the evening i should have just gone back 2 weeks later and they might have had it. anyway thats all ive got for now, ive got to go vote! hopefully my ballot will be returned before the election is over.