Tiama Abidjan

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... they were still as excited about the visit and their hopes for the future. We drove for about 15 minutes before coming to Dwélé, the village where Anicet Seu and his wife live; they attended our meeting yesterday. It's quite an event having a westerner show up to visit you in your out-of-the-way mud-brick village. The neighbors were all watching as we sat in the cool morning air and talked for a few minutes and took some photos. This couple was ...

... again, twice. I tried connecting the printer to the other computer. It wouldn't configure to add the printer. So I went to my room to get my laptop and connected it to the printer: it worked! The computer configured the printer, the drivers loaded; finally after half an hour of messing around, everything looked good. Then with a feeling of triumph as I sent my notes, the printer spat out blank sheets of paper: the ink cartridges were ...

About 15 minutes before I needed to head for the boarding gate for the flight to Abidjan, the staff of the Air France lounge announced over the intercom that we all needed to evacuate. A bag had been found abandoned nearby which always raises the possibility of a terrorist threat, and part of the terminal was being cordoned off pending the bomb squad investigation. That seems to happen fairly often in Charles de Gaulle; I've already been through ...

... media coverage and funding for upcoming programmes in the future. By Wednesday morning I was a bit of a nervous wreck. We had had a hell of a time finalising the programme and had been printing them late into the night on Tuesday, so when I started to put on my outfit (a traditional Ghanaian top and long skirt) only to find that it was rather tight I was not pleased. I should have known that with one bad thing comes another and another. As I was walking down my road to the main road I ...

... statements and then I spoke for about half an hour on the brevity and uncertainly of life, and how God watches over us and cares for us - seeing to it that His purpose will be accomplished - even if we don't understand why He allows certain sad events to occur. And we read through encouraging scriptures on the resurrection of the dead. Bernard talked another half hour or so about parables and how they can improve our spiritual understanding and ...

La journée d'hier a été dédiée à mettre en boite ce brave Big Toy! A 7:00, après une nuit réparatrice, climatisée, dans un appart où nous nous sommes préparé un diner somptueux: 1 boite de sardine + une salade géante de fruits frais, préalablement rafraîchis, au Palm Club, indiqué par une rencontre à Nouakchoot, quelques épisodes plus tôt, nous voilà partis à la recherche du transitaire en bananes sur un port d'Abidjan aussi merdique que ...

... et variées, même des volantes en moto qui se feront rembarrer par nos protecteurs. A plusieurs reprises, des échanges houleux opposeront nos 2 compères à leurs collègues qui aimeraient bien, malgré leur présence, nous racketter, juste un petit peu! Le syndrôme des otages s'empare de nous, nous faisons corps avec eux dans une résistance téméraire! Nos hôtes, entre deux contrôles, se montrent discrets (en fait ils dorment! mais d'un oeil seulement, comme le ...

... Oh well. As soon as I got out of the check-in area, around the corner and out of sight, I stopped and emptied the contents of my vest pockets back into the carryon bags where everything had been at the start. Vive l'Afrique! In my experience in Africa, the more repressive the government, the more officials check your passport when arriving and leaving. My passport and boarding pass were checked once at the door to the airport, once a few ...