TRAVELS w/P: Tales of Adventure Here & There: Picture stories

Bone jarring "highway" from Calabar to Makurdi

Traditional thatched roofed houses clustered under an umbrella tree

Mango pit stop

military chop stop

25/03/2103 – A Monday of littles

Little comforts of home equal big moments of joy. Sunday night I had a wee window of power (without internet access) and watched a flick (thanks Dad).

Today Christine invites me to go swimming after work with her two boys Josh (6?) and Michael (4). N1000 gets you into an almost Olympic sized pool at the Princesomething hotel. The water is warm but damn it feels sooooooo good. Of the 20 or so people there, I’m one of the littlest sveltest ones (go figure – pun intended).

Which reminds me: back in Abuja Stacey tells about a focus group she is invited to monitor. Not knowing they’re being watched, the young women participants say things to one another like: “oh I wish my belly was as big and round as yours.” Now wouldn’t that make for a stellar Dove love yourself as you are ad back in North America?

Another small comfort is on my plate at this very moment: cucumber and tomato salad.

It’s the little things, as they say, that make all the difference.

A little frustration like lousy internet service is a different-kind-of case in point. Pour moi, not only does it create keep in touch problems, it makes getting anything done at work near impossible. Lekan, the IT guy has been instructed to keep wifi on after work hours. He’s sporadic about this, like daytime power. He’s also been asked by the Big Guy and me to modify my Concern Universal e-addy. He’s insistent the extra dash is “no problem.” No problem? How about not being able to send or receive messages and hearing from others that their messages bounce back? I need to figure out what little things make all the difference in this guy’s world cuz he definitely needs to be on this gal’s best friend A-list.