Imo Concorde Hotel Port Harcourt

... own age. H** name was Edith and she studied social anthropology so we had much to talk about and I was asking all kinds of questions about *****ia. Thank to h** the trip was rath** ok, and I got to see much of the landscape. Nine hours lat**, I was in the ***** Delta, Port Harcourt. Nine hours is fast as the roads are really bad, but the driv** drove as he had stolen, the car, the gas and kidnapped all of us so we w**e early in spite of heavy rainfall and ****** roads. Edith got me in a ...

... an mein** Seite. Nazi hat Papas Warnung am Flughafen, nur ja gut auf mich aufzupassen, offenbar sehr **nst genommen, und fu**chtet das Schlimmste fu** sich, falls mir was passi**en sollte :-) Am Montag hatte ich echt ein bisschen den Blues. Zum **sten Mal ev** war ich nicht bei Matinee in W**melskirchen!! Ihr muesst mir auf jeden Fall mal noch **zaehlen, was es Neues gibt und w** da war und w** nicht und ueb**haupt! Hi ...

How are you all doing? This'll be the last email from Calabar as we leave on Wednesday boohoo. I will be so sad to leave althogh I am really looking forward to Edinburgh and also planning post-VSO stuff. Have just come out of a 5 and a half hour church s**vice.... It was v**y int**esting. S**vices h**e are like watching a conc**t - preach**s stand on a stage with a mic and we all dance to funky music! In today's s ...

... me dust it off when she spotted a slimy black thing in the pocket I use the most - I was lucky not to have been bitten! Aside from that I am fine and am preparing myself to come back to the UK in Decemb**. Thanks to ev**yone who responded to my last email about the clothes - I'll sort out what I want in the next few days and will let you know when I can meet you in London. I look forward to seeing some of you in Decemb** - seems like forev** since I spoke to ev**yone.

... white man" (eg canoes and footballs) at all. Pet** then rounded up by stating that they w**e inf**ior to white people as they "w**e living in mud huts before we came along". We tried to explain that this was not the case and that eg canoes w**e not 'invented' by the white man but it was like they had all been brainwashed. Work is going well - we are trying to twin Flieyo school with Edinburgh schools and hope to get Edinburgh ...

I think this week has been one of the busiest I've ev** had! Work placements are going v**y well - int**estingly, the teach**s seem to think that I know ev**ything about what they are teaching. I attempted to give a lesson on traditional festivals in Calabar (New Yam Festival anyone????!!) which was v**y funny as I didn't have a clue and neith** did the children about what festivals Calabar holds. We met the Obong of Calabar on Tuesday who is the lead** of the Efiks (dominant ...

Am in my third week in *****ia now and time is zooming by! It is so hot h**e and we haven't even come into the hot season (Oct-Feb) yet. Calabar is surprisingly rainy - more so than the rest of *****ia. It is lovely h**e. I don't thnk I've emailed about Calabar yet. We got h**e eventually aft** a 12 hour bus ride from Abuja. Ordinarily, it would have taken about half the time but we w**e delayed by pot holes (= whole bits of road missing). Driv**s have to zig zag across ...

... taken the nursing staff (25 in numb**) to task, a Polish anaesthetist (via Seattle) who has an impressive collection of music and musical knowledge and a French team lead** who is v**y capable. I am the only MSF virgin h**e as all the rest have been on at least one previous mission. The building of the kitchens and laundry rooms have approached completion today and the second stage of the project should start soon. This involves the purchase of an ambulance ...

... Ikom - Calabar 07h30, departure from Calabar, direction to Ikom. No problem except that I believed that it was to 167 Km and not to 230 Km actually. In short I arrive to the *****ian bord** und** rain. Short formalities; v**y surprised not to have something to dash. No news of the "special abroad vehicle license." Ev**ything is OK. Then, aft** having passed a bridge fenced on both sides like Auchwitz Camp, I arrive to the Cam**oonian bord**; ev**ything in the deep forest and ...

... Harcourt, I explained Tony I wanted some clothes. He enquired if I wanted to go to the secure-for-foreign**s sup**market, or to the regular market... Of course, I asked if the regular market was ok. The answ** was not that clear, but I told him that he could take me: I trusted him, as he was responsible for me... nev** said something so stupid ev**aft** So we got to the market: imagine an african street. Buildings on the left for 1km. The market ...