My flight schedule was Dublin - London - Abuja (Captial of Nigeria). In London I met up with Jenni, a Finnish CSC colleague. Early in the morning at 4:30 am, we arrived in Abuja. I had 3 hours of sleep and a nice shower at a Sheraton hotel before we met up with 4 other team members (Ron, Lindsey, Michele and Cynthia from the US) at the Abuja airport. The rest of our Nigeria 1 Team (Juan Pablo from Venezuela, Kish from India and Greg, a French guy living in Australia) landed in Lagos (the biggest city in Nigeria). The flight from Abuja to Lagos took just one hour but we had a clear and amazing view from our plane. Nigeria is a VERY VERY green country with a lot of woods. When we finally arrived in Calabar, we met the entire team and Ann Oden as well who is the CDC DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS (formerly Citizens Development Corps) country representative for Nigeria. We're just up north from the equator, the climate is tropical here. I just hope we expeerience the beginning of the dry season as well as it raining, raining, raining.
