Finally here

Leassons learnt nr. 1: always do business with Nigerians in person. As soon as I flew over to visit the Embassy in Stockholm there were no problems getting my visa. I continued my journey back to Helsinki just to catch my original flight to London where I met up with Hermann, a German CSC colleague who lives in Ireland.

We arrived in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria at 4:30 am this morning.

Had a couple of hours of sleep and a nice shower at a Sheraton hotel (picture above) before we met up with 4 other team members (Ron, Lindsey, Michele and Cynthia from the US) at the Abuja airport. The three others, Juan Pablo from Venezuela, Kish from India and Greg, a French guy living in Australia came to Calabar through Lagos.

The flight from Abuja to Lagos took only one hour. I was amazed to see how green the scenery was. I thought Finland is land of forests, but this something unique. We're just a bit up north from the equator, the climate is tropical here. It remains to be seen wheter it'll rain the whole time, or if we'll get to experience the beginning of the dry season as well.

I'm excited to see how the city looks like in the daylight!