Pr Asokoro Abuja

... br><br>On a p**sonal note: the "African Diet" is working - I`ve lost 15kgs in 12 weeks.<br><br>3rd - Left just aft** breakfast to head to the Angolan embassy to hand in our forms. Luckily we w**e not required to do the int**view. We should be able to pick up our visas on Friday 5th and then hand in our Cam**oon visa applications.<br><br>4th - R&amp;R day at the Sh**aton.<br><br>5th - Hurray! We got our Angolan visas and Gary went to submit our Cam**oon ones. We are ...

... time with me before you go back to h**" or "that's Ok, she can come with us".Anyway, bit of an eye open** th**e.<br><br>Our good friends Ian and Kirsten had to leave the trip while we w**e in Abuja, which was v**y sad and we miss them heaps. Our little gang and cook group is no long** buy we will catch up with them possibly in NZ on the way home if we can.<br><br>Eventually we got the visas for Angola-5 day transit visas the best we could get meaning ...

... rest and th**e is a v**y key element one should account for: th**e are about 140 million souls in a soulless society, it's the most populated country in Africa, Lagos alone have some 9 mil (more than the population of London), one is bound to bump into less friendly people to say the least. Th**e w**e also a lot of nice guys I've spoken to and had the chance to come across. The African spirit is still th**e, a bit diluted by their v**y peculiar economical and political reality, but ...

... their thing, I bought a few avocados and some of the girls scurried across the flattened ground looking for a suitable pee spot. Aft** laying up for an hour or so and enjoying a lovely mix of fruit, salad, pasta and potato salad for lunch it was back to the road... .this time with music due to the comput** being charged. Yay. Hello my old friend. It's now 2.30 and we've stopped in a large town... I think to purchase some eggs. Oliv** is ...

... ahhh a few int**esting photos. Aft** spending the first day sunbathing and enjoying the pool we w**e sorely disappointed when the "fitness manag**" decided that no the pool wasn't free but 2,000 (GBP10) p** day!! What a rip. We laid by the pool but it was so hot it was painful. Rach and I cooled off und** the show** a few times but it was a poor substitute so I finally caved, paid the dosh and dived in. It was the best feeling ...

... this was the day I ch*se t* wash my *nly t*wel and hang it *ut t* dry, and the t*wel was n*wh**e t* be f*und the next day, s* n*w I am using my sleeping sheet thing as a t*wel. As I was lying th**e trying t* sleep I th*ught that this at least meant that the crazy sect having s**vice just bel*w me in the *pen w*uld stay h*me. But what d* y*u kn*w, nine am sharp th**e w**e at it again. The same 5-7 pe*ple and l*ud m*th******ing speak**s and with the past*r that s*unded ...

... pool game, and that was crazy. Most *****ians are Chelsea fans, and when Chelsea play they go all the way. I would guess that around 80 % of the crowd w**e Chelsea fans, making about 400 people. So when Chelsea scored they went absolutely bananas, throwing plastic bottles and plastic chairs in the air! They went even more crazy when the ref blew the whistle and the victory was final. This was my third time in this place and people already ...

... came and said hello. Of course he was a pastor. Nonetheless, he was a v**y nice pastor, not the preaching one, but a more reflected and pragmatic one. And this type of Christian I can handle. And this would probably have been ok, if it was not that Ngozi came ov**. She is VERY religious, and she had been in church all day and even spoken with h** pastor about things going on in the church. Nonetheless, she started talking to him about churches and stuff, and I tried my best not ...

... to do. I was a bit unc**tain about the whole thing, and when they gave me local anaesthetics and I kind of lost my hearing I almost freaked out, but I kept my cool and 3 minutes lat** they w**e finished. They told me to come back ev**y day to address my wounds, but those of you who know me, know that I am not going to do that, as I am my own doctor and can do that myself. In the evening I went to look for anoth** place to stay, and Alex in the office tipped ...

... away from going to church... Friday night and Saturday morning, I worked on my thesis as I had arranged with Odewali to go out for some be**s on Saturday evening. I actually finished a v**y crude draft of the fourth chapt** so I'm pretty happy about that. That means that I only got one real chapt** left, and a loooooot of revising. Nev**theless, if I can have a finished draft of the thesis before I leave *****ia, which would help a lot, so the director and Dauda can look ov ...