| Monday, May 4 | | Print | |
| Written by Toby |
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6am I do not know why but it seems that 6 is the time that we have been awaking here each morning. Ugh. 7:15 Had a great breakfast prepared by my cook. Whom just so happens to be the mother of my kiddo. Pretty cool how that works, eh?  8:00 Picked up for a road trip. I was going with a group of others to visit a home of kids in a city an hour and a half away.Beautiful drive, especially since it was on a new road for a good portion of it. So it was nice and smooth which here in Nigeria is uncommon it seems. 9:00 We were stopped on the way by a group affectionately called the “nail boys”. It is a group of guys from the local government that stop cars to check papers and licenses. Typically they have with them a board with rope on it that has plenty of nails sticking out of the board to flatten a tire. This way they will get you to stop. They are generally out there for their own purposes taking bribes and such so they are not taken seriously by many drivers, thus the “Nail boys” was born I guess. Our driver forgot his license that morning and had to pay a 1000 Naira fine. Which of course did not make him all too happy. 12:15 OK we have arrived in Kaduna. An hour and a half? Huh, we only stopped the once for the nail boys and that only cost us 20 minutes of time. So in actuality it took more than 3 hours of our day to drive there. This means for a day trip we have little time there. While there I helped out a bit. I took photo’s of the kiddo’s who are there in the home. This particular out post is in Kaduna, Nigeria has 19 kids living in it. There was one young man that just started living there after converting to Christianity from Islam a few months ago. An awesome story.  I took photos so that the ministry can have them for their files. Also one of the SIM Nurses came along on the journey to give the kids immunization shots. This is something that SIM does for all of the kids that go thru their program. Thy had Tetanus shots and some received their 2nd dosage of vaccine for Polio.1:45 We kicked a soccer ball around with some of the kids. 2:15 We all gathered into the car and Pastor John prayed for our trip back. Along the way we had to stop twice. Once for black market gas, secondly for gas at a filling station that had gas and zero line. Usually the line is hours long. Nigeria is still trying to catch up with petrol at the stations after the petrol truck drivers are no longer on strike. 4:15 Got a text that we are going to be receiving our car that we ordered a few weeks ago on Wednesday. We had to hire someone to go to the neighboring country of Benin to buy and then drive back to Jos. He was looking for a 93 Toyota Camry for us, but who knows what we really will take ownership of. 6:15 We arrived back in Jos only to have to stop for someone to use nature do to it calling him. We pulled over and he had to climbed a few rocks to hide behind for his business to take place. 6:30 Arrived home to dinner of spaghetti on the table. It was nice to then have dinner with my family after a long day in the van. After 8 pm we still had electricity so we watched a few TV shows that we have borrowed from other missionaries who have large collections of movies and shows to watch. 10:15 Went to bed. |