Le Meridien Ibom Resort Uyo

... n y a pas d electricite on a pas le droit d entree sans pay** les frais exorbitants du gen**ateur, etc... Je suis content j ai reussit en 1H a avoir a faire le visa pour le cam**oun et a recevoir un 3 mois multiple entree que l on ne donne pas normalenent mais la discussion est bien passÉ avec le vice-consul. Attraction majeur de calabar c est le centre de rehabilitation des mandrills. Un singe connu pour ses couleurs et son masque et qui a quasiment disparu.

... V**y funny. Farms gave way to jungle which around 6ish gave way to suburban sprawl as we approached the city of Calabar. Even in the city we w**e met with smiles, waves and people calling out "Welcome to *****ia". S**iously cannot rave enough about the friendliness of *****ians. A guy in one car was concentrating so much on us that he rammed the car in front of him. Problem. Didn't cause any damage but was still enough for 4 or 5 guys to ...

... w**e potholes and cracks ev**ywh**e. That did not stop Kelvin from driving like a mad man. The thing is that his speedomet** does not work so he thinks he drives 70-80, when he was actually driving 100-110. We semi crashed twice in bik**s during my stay, even if it was the bik**s fault, but it was just scary to drive as all driv**s drive on the best side of the road until a car comes on that side, and then they all change back. This led to some int**esting situations w**e we got stuck ...

... al decades, people in wealthy countries are inclined to think of Africa if not as a place of war and total chaos at least as one of stagnation and stuck at a point in time. Howev**, as I saw throughout West Africa, th**e are remarkable changes occurring even in some of the poorest countries and for most of the last decade Africa as a whole has had a remarkable rate of economic growth, albeit from a v**y low base. This reality is apparent in num ...

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 ...

We leave Calabar next week and I have to say I think I will miss it more than anywh**e else! We need to do a few things in Abuja for four days (the journey th**e will take approx 13 hours by bus o yay...) before flying to London. Ev**ything is fast and mad as usual. Got a bit too mad for my liking last week - my work sup**visor was in a car crash last weekend and has been in hospital since. He's ok but has a broken arm - he was in a coma for a couple of days. One of the passeng**s in the ...

... which is wh**e many of the British links with Calabar are found eg. Mary Slessor, Hope Waddell. It was a beautiful place - it looked just like something out of Little House on the Prairie! Myself and two oth** girls went to look at the graveyard (v gothic looking) and got attacked by Bull Ants. You might rememb** me telling you about Soldi** Ants in the rainforest - these do pretty much the same thing but have big heads. *****ian ants are horrible and so vicious ...

... unhurt) and its driv** got up, did not so much as glance at the passeng** to check if they w**e ok, marched ov** to the taxi driv**, pulled him out and started throwing punches at him! Myself and Charlie, anoth** volunte**, decided to start Art classes at a Psychiatric Hospital in Calabar and do so ev**y Friday aft**noon. Last week we taught a drawing/painting class. It was v**y eye-opening for us. Before this, I had struggled ...

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 ...