Caboose

It’s been a interesting few days, lots of new things to take in but Abuja is already starting to feel less strange.

I’m currently on In-Country Training. Yesterday we have filled in lots of forms, visited the VSO programme office, visited the British High Commission here to register and become members of the local British Council library. The picture below is of the street outside the British High Commission, the poor visibility is due to this being Harmattan season, caused by dust being blown from the deserts to the north.

Today we went on a trip to Nyanya market, to give us some practice in haggling, social chit-chat (which is very important here) and speaking Pidgin.

During our In-Country Training we’re staying at the Crystal Palace hotel in Abuja (below left). It’s very comfortable, as you can see from the picture of my room (below right)

At the end of the week we head off to visit a serving volunteer in their placement, I don’t know where it will be yet, probably somewhere outside Abuja.