Saturday Morning 11/10/08 10.10am
I haven’t been writing frequently. I am sure everyone has given up on me. I am probably writing for myself now. Which is not bad bcos I can write what I like, a personal diary on the web, without the fear of anyone reading it.
It has been quite a journey coming back to my home country Nigeria. Starting with living in a big empty house with no fridge, no mosquito net, loads of pet mosquitoes and cockroaches to share the house with, a new job, new environment, new way of working, different culture, everything new. VERY VERY VERY CHALLENGING.
Now it’s a Saturday morning, my family is with me, I’m playing my music on my iPod connected to the stereo, I’ve got my one week old FT Weekend to read about some new banks failing, it’s raining outside, very peaceful inside, can’t go out because of possible flare up caused by local elections, I’m surrounded by the family and family belongings, work coming under some semblance of order. We are not quite there yet, it still takes me an hour to work and two to return, I still wake up 5am to get to work for a 7am – 7pm day to get home at 9pm, my Oga still bawls me out (in Nigeria, you have a licence to bully any unfortunates under you), but we are getting there.
I thought it would take about 2 years before my missus agrees that coming here was a good idea but she agreed after 2 months (Alleluyah!!!). We are getting there, gradually but we are getting there
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7 comments:
We are still with u. We need the encouragement ...so keep writing
:-)
Regards to Rita & the family.
Uzo M
The queue is still very long waiting to read from you.
Very Glad to hear your settling in, family and all.
The current economic climate in the UK is a lesson for us all, no matter where we decide to call home.
What's good today will not always be good tomorrow. I think we can all vouch for this either in our personal time or our parents time.
Gordon Brown once declared,The era of Boom and Bust is now over, I dont think it can ever be over. We need to remember this during the good times, bad times will always come just make sure your prepared.
Keep up your posts
You keep going. Enjoying your blog. Please say hi to Rita for me and tell her I 'lost' her emil address and number and would love to chat.. Could she email me? Soryy for using you as a 'go-between'.but how for do?
Cheers, Tola Phillips
pls keep it coming.We so look forward to every details about our 9ja.
We're not going anywhere mate !!!!
Just get to blogging, how else are the rest of us meant to get a taste of that 'Lekki Life'.
Love to the Mrs and the Kids
Anthony
Great blog. I must say it was your wife's introduction to your blog on nairaland that got me reading. I am looking to relocate soon so I enjoy reading relocatees ( is there such a word... )from London on how things are going. My sister went with her kids to join her pilot husband in october and she is loving Nigeria and more importantly the kids absolutely love it. To hear my 8 year old nephew's first words "Uncle kids in Nigeria are much more friendly, I feel I belong". Tears rolled!!. God bless and I wish you and your family continued success in Nigeria.
Gerard
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