Caboose

After our return from placement visits we had another couple of days of in-country training before travelling to our placements yesterday.

Some of the volunteers had fairly long journeys ahead of them, although Mary, Peter and Geraint were relieved to hear that they would be flying. In my case a Radio Nigeria car picked me up from the hotel at 8:30am and I was being greeted by the Director of News at Radio House shortly afterwards.

My house isn’t ready yet, due to delays in getting the budget approved, so I’ll be staying at the Rockview Hotel until it is. This is across the other side of Abuja, very close to the VSO Programme Office and the British Council. According to rumours it even has a swimming pool.

Everybody at the radio station seems very friendly, I’m suffering from the usual overload of introductions, so I can’t remember most of the people’s names.