Monday Night:
I LOVE being back in Nigeria! Every sight, sound, smell and taste brings back its own set of wonderful memories. From the moment we touched down in Abuja and left the airplane, the delicious, humid air filled with all the familiar petrol, smoke and exhaust smell consumed me. Riding from the Abuja airport to our little hotel along unlit roads, seeing the cell phone charging stations and small cans used to measure out petrol on the black market, feeling our car bottom out, fitting 4 people in the back of a tiny corolla-sized car that was questionable whether or not it would have enough strength to make it over the next pot hole, and crossing the median of a highway under construction so that we could get across to the road that we needed to turn onto brought me immediately back in time. I could hardly contain my excitement and joy bursting inside! All of this happened in the first two hours that we were officially in Nigeria.
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