Progress

PROGRESS
13/09/08

Don’t get me wrong, it is still very challenging. I was in the office this Saturday morning by 9.50am. This was after leaving the office the night before at 9.30pm trying to get an MOU out the door. I finally got to leave the office at about 12.30pm on Saturday to head for home and go and see my kids who I hadn’t seen all week, what with leaving the house at 6am and returning at 9pm every day this week.

I think my madam is gradually settling in based on her new membership in two wifes clubs. VGC Wife’s Club by dint of us enrolling our six year old boy in Saturday morning football, a prerequisite for any self respecting VGC wife with young boys. The second is the even move exclusive VGC returnees club. The returnees club is based around an outpost of returnees (mostly from the UK) whose initial stop-off point is the leafy surroundings of VGC , allowing you to aclimatise before venturing forth into the madness that is the rest of Lagos.

It was early evening time, we were in the VGC club by the pool chatting with 4 other members of the returnees club, talking about how they wish they had come over 4 years ago, me lounging on a pool lounger, after a swim with the kids in the pool, reading my one week old FT Weekend and biting into some nice suya accompanied by my small stout while our new house help was running round after the kids, weeeeeellllll, I think I will still choose Naija anyday, even with the pressures of work….

Other indications of progress;

1) The plumber is coming around Monday to plumb in the washing machine,
2) Our container is finally here and it’s a nice feeling being surrounded by your stuff
3) A call came in that the cooker knob was delivered just as I was sharpening my Samurai sword (killer of 1000 warriors) to go and spill blood at Park n' Shop.

I can smell progress in the air. October will make it 6 months since I have been here, funny how time flies….