Firstly, due to an incident involving a bomb that was rather near our compound, our company decided to move all children out of this location. Wives without children had an option to stay with their hubbies. Therefore, many great people have returned to their home countries and the dads will just be visiting them once every two months. The cool thing is that the wives who are here really want to be here so the attitude on the camp is pretty terrific. Everyone has a "can do" kind of approach and is chipping in to make this experience a great one. We do have limited mobility so I'm coming up with ideas for entertainment on the camp. Some who had been miserable will not be back -- so, now no one here is made miserable by their misery!!! Hallelujah!!
We feel quite safe, still. Our company is very cautious and makes decisions based on the future projections. Things will be a bit shakey up to the elections in April and then beyond. We plan on being out of country during that time. If these elections succeed and a new president takes office it will be the first time in the history of this rather wackie nation that there has been a transfer of power from one civilian government to another without a military coup or a few coups. Most people expect the election to happen. There will, more than likely, be a president elected from the North. The main candidate appears to be a fairly honest dude -- quite an accomplishment in itself seeing the rampant nature of the corruption in this land.
Jim's swamped with work! But other than the occasional panick that accompanies too many demands at a time, he's thriving quite well. My work load has become reasonable due to the decrease in numbers of folks on our camps, the lack of children, etc.
I never had the access to internet that I had hoped so I'll be adding photos from our trip on this entry and for the next few.
I'll work our way backward, so I'll
start with Sydney and back up to Singapore in later entries.
2 comments:
Hi Sharon! It's Jodi, not John as the account will probably say. I read your blog regularly and what an interesting life you lead! It was so fun on this one to see pictures of Joey. We've been wondering how he's doing. You all look so tan! We're in a winter wonderland this year! God bless you and keep you safe in Nigeria.
Hi, Jodi and Hi, Susan!
Yes, we did have fun.
Sooooooo many people have commented, upon our return, that we look very relaxed!
Yippee!!
Don't you think Joey's got a great Aussie/Hollywood look going??? :-)
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