My First Trip: Day Four

Disclaimer: This is an edited version of my diary from November 2000. Some information contained may be incorrect, and opinions I expressed then are not the opinions of Aaron Rowe in 2006. I have posted it purely for the Novelty value.

Thursday 23rd November 2000

NO NEPA 2

Woke up this morning again with no NEPA , generator came on at quarter to seven and cooled my room down enough to get up in time for a quick shower before leaving just after seven for brekkie.

Today was W... and S...'s last whole day here in Lagos so they were very stressed out trying to get enough meetings in with the relevant government type people. D... was busy most of the day working on various things away from his desk, so I occupied that space and typed out the last 2 days diaries into HTML so that I can send you all a nicely formatted version of my diary. I'm planning to send this out to everyone whose email address I can remember, so if you know anybody, I haven't sent it to who may want it, please forward it. Let me know their address so that I can sort it next time.

Biding My Time

For most of the day, all I did was work on D...'s laptop playing with this set of pages. Most people thought I was doing something constructive, so I think I did OK.

The rest of the day was pretty boring, I decided I wasn't to go to any more meetings because of yesterday, and D... understood I think. D... did say though that some people remembered me and asked why I wasn't there at the next meeting. This is so scary.

I wasn't sure whether to be answering D... telephone or not, so I was just letting it ring and the nearby admin. staff would come to my rescue pretty quickly. I asked D... about it later and he said it would be fine for me to answer the phones as long as I was careful to get names from these people, and try not to be rude when I can't understand a single word.

So the day rolled on, we had another great lunch, another great dinner, and after tea I crashed out on the Sofa watching a film about something or other, but it failed to hold my interest, so I fell asleep.

So home to bed