May you live in interesting times.
Now it’s really been ages since I logged on last. There have been interesting developments (interesting in the sense of the famous Chinese curse) but we are clearly still here. Christmas Eve was really nice, not too much of an overpowering Christmas mood here (neither sentimental nor commercial), the only reason for people here to go a little bit funny is that Christmas is the main holiday period of the year (because it’s Summer all the time anyways). So we had a nice Christmas dinner with my boss’ family, to which I very reluctantly let myself be invited, but it’s not as strictly family related as it would be in the UK.
And Christmas Day was spent at the beach, with most of the ppl from our compound. My son didn’t want to come out of the water even though the waves were really powerful… and I and a Polish guy who is currently in Lagos on his tour of hitchhiking through Africa just had to show off and crossed the waves to have a proper swim in the ocean, admired by everyone, cause Lagosians don’t know how to swim, strangely enough.
Day before we went to a big gig at the Eko Hotel, some TV station’s anniversary, ended up meeting some big names again and all that. The afterparty was cool though, danced like crazy for the first time since coming back to Lagos. Proper dance floor madness until 4am. Of course no pics since my small camera was pinched again, which was a bit upsetting, but then I read in the papers that Akon at his gig a few days before had his belt and wallet etc pinched as well, after which he stormed off the stage and the gig was finished. I’m glad I didn’t go there like I had wanted to. But yeah it does feel good that it even happens to celebs like him.
Right now our gunslinger mobile policeman is driving me to the Sheraton so I can escape the holiday boredom for a bit. Haha… just as I mention gunslinging, he jumps out and shakes his gun at a passing truck, while buying petrol on the black market, cause there is none at the petrol stations… these people are nuts. He’s good though, yesterday at the beach he did nothing but peacemaking.
The last few days at work have been fun, I do have pics from that, cause I finally got my beautiful dual lens Sony Alpha camera. And omg what a piece of equipment. My job is going to change slightly, now that I’ve had a look around I think I’ll be better in PR, cause I’m too opinionated to be a PA really. Again, it’s never clear how much longer things will work out here, everything is slightly volatile, with the elections coming up early next year…
My son is doing well here though, he’s come out of his shell a lot, at the family Christmas do he was mingling and shaking hands like a pro, I was so proud of him. He went horseback riding on the beach yesterday, without me, only with the guide sitting behind him.
What else? I’m homesick… we saw some great houses in Victoria Garden City, some new development near the beach on Victoria Island, and I found myself thinking yeah I wouldn’t mind that house near the beach where I grew up… Still enjoying Lagos a lot but am really hoping we can make it back home soon.
And Christmas Day was spent at the beach, with most of the ppl from our compound. My son didn’t want to come out of the water even though the waves were really powerful… and I and a Polish guy who is currently in Lagos on his tour of hitchhiking through Africa just had to show off and crossed the waves to have a proper swim in the ocean, admired by everyone, cause Lagosians don’t know how to swim, strangely enough.
Day before we went to a big gig at the Eko Hotel, some TV station’s anniversary, ended up meeting some big names again and all that. The afterparty was cool though, danced like crazy for the first time since coming back to Lagos. Proper dance floor madness until 4am. Of course no pics since my small camera was pinched again, which was a bit upsetting, but then I read in the papers that Akon at his gig a few days before had his belt and wallet etc pinched as well, after which he stormed off the stage and the gig was finished. I’m glad I didn’t go there like I had wanted to. But yeah it does feel good that it even happens to celebs like him.
Right now our gunslinger mobile policeman is driving me to the Sheraton so I can escape the holiday boredom for a bit. Haha… just as I mention gunslinging, he jumps out and shakes his gun at a passing truck, while buying petrol on the black market, cause there is none at the petrol stations… these people are nuts. He’s good though, yesterday at the beach he did nothing but peacemaking.
The last few days at work have been fun, I do have pics from that, cause I finally got my beautiful dual lens Sony Alpha camera. And omg what a piece of equipment. My job is going to change slightly, now that I’ve had a look around I think I’ll be better in PR, cause I’m too opinionated to be a PA really. Again, it’s never clear how much longer things will work out here, everything is slightly volatile, with the elections coming up early next year…
My son is doing well here though, he’s come out of his shell a lot, at the family Christmas do he was mingling and shaking hands like a pro, I was so proud of him. He went horseback riding on the beach yesterday, without me, only with the guide sitting behind him.
What else? I’m homesick… we saw some great houses in Victoria Garden City, some new development near the beach on Victoria Island, and I found myself thinking yeah I wouldn’t mind that house near the beach where I grew up… Still enjoying Lagos a lot but am really hoping we can make it back home soon.
posted by A at
5:25 PM
1 Comments:
Hi
Happy new year, here is all the same hope your enjoying it out there,
Bye
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