I know that a lot of people read this so i thought i should write something.
We both continue to plod along her, and are now used to Amaudo life, well as used to as you can get.
I have had a quiet week as our vehicle has been broken so we have not been out as much, to visit the children.
I have just created a new email address for the project, an achievement considering the computers!!!!
I am staying in Umuahia again tonight and leaving Andy at home, i am sure i will enjoy some BBQ corn, it is very nice.
We have been invited to a wedding from a young couple at the presbyterian church we attend ( when given the sunday off). So the man is coming around tommorrow to give Andy some palm wine, it is a shame i will not be there. I hope that maybe we can become friends with them, as we still have few friends.
Palm wine is tapped from the sap of palm trees, if drunk fresh it is not too toxic, but if left it ferments. It is a traditional drink. During the traditional marriage ceremony it is drunk and the brie has to find the groom with a cup.
Last week there was a strike here about the fuel prices, but it has ended.
We are doing ok on the food getting used to stew and rice, and both of us can even eat a plate of beans for breakfast now!!!
I can not think of anything else to add, we miss you all, but we know that we are needed her and are learning a lot. we hope to travel to Abuja the capital and stay with some expats there, and Andy hopes to meet some ecconomists there. I hope to get a real cup of coffee!!!
enjoy
Friday, 29 June 2007
Thursday, 21 June 2007
Double clothes and chocolate chip cookies
Hello, family and friends!
On Monday, we celebrated our second wedding anniversary. When we celebrated our first anniversary last year in Sheffield, we could choose just about any type of food and drink from any part of the world. In rural Nigeria, one's options are much more limited but we made the best of it. We took the liberty of taking our staple evening meal of rice and stew back to our house (we usually eat with the residents in the dining room to be community with them, even though the place smells) and added to it red onion, cucumber and Heinz tinned salad (that also contains mayonnaise). We also spoiled ourselves with olives and chocolate chip cookies. We also toasted the occasion with a bottle of red wine (don't tell the Deaconness). There is basically only one make of wine you can buy here (the Spanish Baron de Valles) but at least that makes one's decision easier (I can't tell you the number of minutes of my life I've wasted perusing the vast array of wines in Morrisons desperately trying to make the right choice) and it's a relative steal at just over 2 pounds per bottle.
This last week couldn't be any different to our honeymoon week two years ago. For a start, Hazel has been away these last two nights supporting the "other" Project Comfort in Ohafia. We will be reunited later today. We plan to stay in Umuahia tonight and then travel to Benin (the city in Nigeria, not the country next to Nigeria) tomorrow with our Northern Irish colleague, Elaine. However, these last few days the country has been plagued by industrial action in protest at the recent increases in fuel prices - Hazel was lucky to get to Enugu and back last Friday - so we shall have to play it by ear. Anyway, it's not a good start for the new administration that was sworn in last month.
In terms of work, my team has been busy preparing the 2006 and 2007 quarter 1 accounts, as well as a budget for second half of 2007, ready for the Board meeting next Tuesday. I'm sorry, but I can't think of any way of making accountancy seem more interesting. But I'm happy to say I'm enjoying the work much more than I thought I would.
The weather here is getting slightly cooler, particularly at night and first thing in the morning, but I still haven't yet had the need to wear "double clothes" as they say here (that is, more than one layer). Hazel has, but that is mainly to protect herself from the dreaded mosquitoes that are getting much more vicious in this rainy season.
Well, I hope you are all enjoying BBQs and strawberries and cream in our absence. Have a vegetarian sausage on us!
Andy
On Monday, we celebrated our second wedding anniversary. When we celebrated our first anniversary last year in Sheffield, we could choose just about any type of food and drink from any part of the world. In rural Nigeria, one's options are much more limited but we made the best of it. We took the liberty of taking our staple evening meal of rice and stew back to our house (we usually eat with the residents in the dining room to be community with them, even though the place smells) and added to it red onion, cucumber and Heinz tinned salad (that also contains mayonnaise). We also spoiled ourselves with olives and chocolate chip cookies. We also toasted the occasion with a bottle of red wine (don't tell the Deaconness). There is basically only one make of wine you can buy here (the Spanish Baron de Valles) but at least that makes one's decision easier (I can't tell you the number of minutes of my life I've wasted perusing the vast array of wines in Morrisons desperately trying to make the right choice) and it's a relative steal at just over 2 pounds per bottle.
This last week couldn't be any different to our honeymoon week two years ago. For a start, Hazel has been away these last two nights supporting the "other" Project Comfort in Ohafia. We will be reunited later today. We plan to stay in Umuahia tonight and then travel to Benin (the city in Nigeria, not the country next to Nigeria) tomorrow with our Northern Irish colleague, Elaine. However, these last few days the country has been plagued by industrial action in protest at the recent increases in fuel prices - Hazel was lucky to get to Enugu and back last Friday - so we shall have to play it by ear. Anyway, it's not a good start for the new administration that was sworn in last month.
In terms of work, my team has been busy preparing the 2006 and 2007 quarter 1 accounts, as well as a budget for second half of 2007, ready for the Board meeting next Tuesday. I'm sorry, but I can't think of any way of making accountancy seem more interesting. But I'm happy to say I'm enjoying the work much more than I thought I would.
The weather here is getting slightly cooler, particularly at night and first thing in the morning, but I still haven't yet had the need to wear "double clothes" as they say here (that is, more than one layer). Hazel has, but that is mainly to protect herself from the dreaded mosquitoes that are getting much more vicious in this rainy season.
Well, I hope you are all enjoying BBQs and strawberries and cream in our absence. Have a vegetarian sausage on us!
Andy
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