Electricity and Cell Phone Service

I can't understand how I left this country almost a decade ago, came back, and we are still have electricity issues! I guess a lot doesn't always happen in a long time. It's mind bloggling. This past weekend, NEPA, or should I say Power Holdings Company of Nigeria (LOL, how appropriate), only gave us light for about 2 hours!! I know! Crazy! Sometimes people leave their generators running for days. It just doesn't make sense. Like someone said, in this country, you are your own Local Government i.e. you pretty much supply your own electricity, water, etc. Even if you have a generator, you still don't want them to "take the light", as we say, cos it's just stressful. You have to buy gas or diesel to power the generator and the sound produced by the generators is unpleasant especially when they run all night. Oh and they contribute to the pollution. Ah, Nigeria!

Man, I miss my contract cell phone service! T-Mobile! Where art thou! Ok, so, you can get a contract phone here but it's pretty expensive. The way cell phones work here is you purchase a sim card and then you "buy credit" as necessary. Once your credit expires, you can't make any phone calls!! Now, that's pretty scary! I know I used to complain about the 40 cents per minute that T-Mobile used to charge once you've exhausted your minutes for the month but man! what I would do to have that kind of security. Think about it now, if you run out of credit and need to make an urgent phone call, you can't! That's why you always have to have "emergency credit" in your wallet. Also, sometimes, if the "network is bad", you might not be able to "load" your credit. Geez louise! Now I understand why people have two or more phones! I used to think it was funny but it's quite necessary!

Holy Child College

I visited my high school for the first time in over a decade yesterday! Wow, has it changed for the better or what! First of all, the missionaries have taken over! You ask what that means, well, it means that the quality of education is probably better, the facilities have been and are being upgraded, etc.

When I walked in, I was shocked. It was quiet and the students were there. Lol. The roads were paved!!! It was clean. They now have a boarding school, which, back then we thought they never would. It now has junior and senior secondary schools. The uniform has chnaged, as in, if you're in the junior school, you wear a pinafore and if you're in the senior school, you don't. Pretty straight forward. Oh, yeah, the cap is still the same though. LOL. You have to see it to know why I'm laughing. Anyways, it was great to be back there, the place where a lot of things happened in shaping who I am today.

I'm Back!!!!!!!

Oh yeah!! I'm back and boy do I have a lot to say! Nigeria is crazy y'all. What?? Anyways, I know I was away from my blog for a while but I figured I have to get back otherwise I'll just keep making excuses about why I haven't blogged in a while.

Geez, where do I start? A lot has been going on to say the least. I was reading my blog the other day and I was like wow! what a JJC I was a few months ago! LOL! I can say I have adjusted to Nigeria but man, there are still some things I don't get. Ah, customer service? Non-existent! Driving situation, crazy as ever, actually, it's really the traffic that's MADD!! The air? LOL. Still different as in P-O-L-L-U-T-E-D. I was in a cab the other day and I had to video tape the fumes coming out of the truck in front of the cab (will try to upload it). It was insane and to think people have to inhale that everyday! Mad! Something needs to be done about that. I might have to write a petition or something to ban cars that emit a ridiculous amount of fumes. You should see how much fumes one small okada (motorcycle) emits all by itself. It's actually quite funny.

In Nigeria enh, you have to find a way around all the madness. Join a club of some sort or something (I've been salsaing by the way! So much fun!) otherwise you could lose it.

I'm so excited to be back to blogging!

Alrightie, Later :)