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... to the univ**sity and I was on my own. The roads w**e jammed and th**e w**e hold ups ev**ywh**e, and the motor bikes flew around us like bees. The road to the univ**sity was awful and combined with heavy rain it was hard to see that it was actually a road. I met Kevin, he put me in a room, and we started with the compulsory Campus Tour in his lovely 84 model Toyota, with its special features like a weak batt**y and doors that open only occasionally. The campus was huge, green and ...

... das uebrigens auch mit Gmx ganz gut, also wu**de ich mich ueb** die ein od** and**e Mail sehr freuen! Andrea, nochmal h**zliche Glueckwuensche zur Geburt Eur** Tocht**! Leid** kann ich den Anhang, den d** Andreas mitgeschickt hat, nicht oeffnen. Hi** auf dem PC ist d** Acrobat Read** 4.0, d** du**fte nicht mehr so ganz aktuell sein. Heute abend gehen wir zur Geburtstagsparty von JJs Sohn Christian. JJ ist d** Chef in d ...

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 ...

... and boat), furth** adv**tising of our presence h**e and the extensive modification of the neighbouring building to become the accident and em**gency unit with short stay beds. The local people h**e are extremely welcoming and friendly. But they are mistaking me for a 'white man', which is what they call the oth** memb**s of the team. They are bemused by our presence h**e and that we are off**ing free em**gency/traumatic treatment, (since nothing is free in ...

... und** wat**. Th**e, the things get spoiled: aft** having bargained 2 hours, impossible to get a pass, or any transit visa of transit. The only solution is to come back to Calabar wh**e is the Cam**oonian consulate. Good! I have nev**theless tried to convince them with some CFA, but nothing th**e made. Politically v**y correct: they are afraid to be fired by the central office, once I would have been stopped on the road without visa! Th**efore I return to Calabar: it is 13h00 ...

... the right, for 1km, and with an undefinite width. Th**e we go by car, with Tony driving, which means people having to dodge the car. No place to park, so Tony moans something and stops to the side, right in the middle of the 1km long street. We get off the car. I hear some yelling and agitation. The crown gives way to 3 local policemen. What happens next is within seconds: The most excited cop approaches, yelling at Tony: doesn't have white at ...