TRAVELS w/P: Tales of Adventure Here & There

15/04/2013 Monday

I wake to a violent storm this morning. Lightening cracks into the room in flashes of blinding light making me think it struck and travelled through the house’s electric circuitry. Thunder booms and shudders moments later like an angry drummer pounding next to my bed. Watery pools in the parlour reveal the saggy stained ceiling’s weaknesses. It’s the 15^th of April. Driver Daniel had said the rainy season would officially arrive mid month.  And so it seems.

Seems too I’m travelling with my CU colleagues this week to  Ogoja in Ebonyi State for a three day training session about water, sanitation and hygiene. Two days are in-class, day three takes us to a village to trigger the first community awareness initiative associated with the Global Sanitation Fund. We leave Tuesday. Training runs Wednesday-Thursday-Friday, home Saturday.  Will generous per diems be paid out again? It sure would be helpful after the N18000 laptop repair coming on top of adventure travel. Alas my body is suffering from those travels. A honking big yellow bruise covers most of my left knee from falling up the mudslide at Afi Mountain. Legs, arms and back are dotted with itsy bitsy ever so itchy sand fly bites, compliments of Kwa Falls. No evidence, though of the prawn pinches that startled each of us at different times and places during our swim.  Hope that’s it, that’s all. I’ve been reading Bradt’s Guide to Nigeria, Edition Three and gotta say the Health section is full of eww squirm material.