Getting Here

Ok let's start from the beginning.

Getting to Nigeria from Australia. Yeah its real far. I haven't calculated but I'm sure there aren't to many places further from one another. 24 hours to London, 6 hour wait, then a 7 hour flight to Lagos = a day and half odd uncomfortable sleeping. But who cares, I made it didn't I.

I am 95% sure that the chick sitting diagonally opposite me on the flight from Sydney to London was the red-headed woman from CSI. I had this internal battle waging in my head all they way "why would a top tv actress travel in economy class, yet.... she looks soooo like her".

Other than that my flights were uneventful. But got the chance to chat to a great guy on the way to Lagos. Most of the people on the flight were Nigerians that live in london returning home to visit relatives like Austin next to me. He had some interesting business ideas on how Nigeria should stop worshipping oil and try other things, like coal, which he was in to.

Going through immigration I got a bit shafted. They only stamped my visa for one month so I'm going to have to do a bit of work to fix that. Incidentally for all you hashers out there, the woman in from of me in the queue had a Lagos HHH badge on her bag. So looks like that great expat culture is thriving here too.

About half a dozen or so AIESECers met me at the airport. The boys escorted me through the carpark and helped me avoid the extra attention of a few Nigerian police. Drove through Lagos to Femi's house where I would be to stay for a week until I moved to Ife where my traineeship is located.

All in all, an incident free trip,

Nick