NIgeria Dreams

Well, It has been a whirlwind first week here at school. Acclimating to middle school has been quite an adjustment but so far it is good. We are on a mad hunt for a car. Harper is busy pressing the volume button up and down so if this post is a little scattered it is because I am very distracted. Nigeria has been okay so far. Shopping is still a challenge and I can see a future where getting off campus will be imperative. I thought Whidbey Island got small at times. Bee=p beep beep…Harper has been enjoying the pool privileges. Beep beep vroom… Today Harper was chasing the brightly colored lizards down the sidewalk. Things here seen pretty urbanized and then I see something like lizards and flowers in bloom and I can imagine what Lagos may have looked like before modernization. We saw butterflies today and my first thought was “how beautiful”. …Then, “I wonder if it’s poisonous.” Most things on campus seem familiar to home except there are glances of things that remind us we aren’t in the states. Like the water we have to filter and the lack of chocolate. People become hoarders of things like chips from the states, good coffee or meats that they know are okay. But for the most part you don’t think about it. I don’t even give people who are in amazing African print fabrics a second glance any more....beep