AFRICAN MEMORIES

The temperature averaged around 90, seemed to rain most of our time there, was told it was their rainy season.

The land was a contrast to itself, in places barren with a red sand/clay, other places rich green trees & brush. Some areas flat, others had mountains.

Nigeria is a country twice the size of California, and many of the people live in extreme poverty there. Different languages are spoken by different tribes, so it's not all one language & one united group of people.

The capitol there now is Abuja, this is where we traveled monthly to do our 'shopping'.

There were many outdoor markets, that had food, jewelry, clothes, pottery, all kinds of wares. It was fun & exciting!

The buildings of the city were out dated according to our standards. No sky scrapers there LOL, none had over 3 floors, all looked old & in need of paint.

The people were all friendly & curious of us, they would wave at us and smile as we walked by. The children would come up talking to us, but we couldn't understand them.

We saw many different kinds of animals, bugs, spiders, & snakes on our stay. But not close up...they stayed to a distance. Except the bugs, spiders, & snakes, LOL we saw plenty of them close up...too close up.

One of our group was bitten by a snake, 3 were bitten by spiders, but were told they were not poisonous, Thank God.

There were lots of flying insects too, we used a cream that we applied all over to try and keep them away as much as possible. Also had nets that were hung over our cots, we would pull them around us at night to try & keep most of the creepy things out!

It was a lot different than you see in the movies, in most aspects, yet quite similar in others.

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