Abuja!!

Hey all,

I arrived in Abuja last Friday, and after roughly 18 hours on a plane and 7000 miles, I was pretty wiped out. The jet lag didn't affect me too badly, but adjusting to a new place and bed is still taking some time. All of my instruments and crates came through, with the exception of one of my bags. I am still waiting for the bag, hopefully it shows up.

When we arrived in Abuja, it was 5:00, and it turns out there were 5 of us from the school on the same flight. We boarded a bus and headed to our compound where our apartments are. The apartments are huge! 3 bedrooms, 3 and a half bath, a full kitchen, living room furniture and a washer/dryer. The school provided us with about $300 in local money to go shopping for the next two days to buy food and other essentials.

We got to the school and took a tour yesterday, we are here all week doing orientation and moving into our classrooms. I am super excited about having my own classroom and come August 16 I will have my very own students.

The administration and the local staff are very accomodating. We will have a bus with a driver through next week and we have been fed lots of food. I am nervous about driving after I buy my liscense as the traffic here is CRAZY. In the past few days I've seen 9 people packed into a sedan, 30 people piled onto the back of a truck, many people dashing inches infront of cars across the freeway, and more vendors than I can count. People sell everything on the street.

So far, things are great! Look for pictures hopefully in my next post.

Leif