laure

good times :)

what a cool place! only got to spend a coupla days here on the tail end of a surgical clinic i worked with but i absolutely loved it. am wanting to go back, using the spanish scool as an excuse

was in nigeria for just about a month and left with mixed emotions. the country is highly populated, with one of the highest birth rates on the continent (so i’ve been told). most of the people i met were intelligent, regal, and smiling despite all the turmoil in their lives.
nigeria is such a rich country, producing a lot of crude oil, but there’s so much corruption in the government that it spills out into the every day lives. alot of government officials expect to be paid off (just to get into the country via the airport we had to pay the passport inspector and then give her a ride home) and there always seemed to be some kind of riot going on in the city with at least one casualty.

i dunno…it’s been almost three years since visiting and i’m still unsure as to how i feel about nigeria