Good Morning All!
Im safe and sound at home - getting ready to go back to work tomorrow.
What an amazing experience! As we prepared to leave Emi-woro, I found it difficult to keep my composure. My last meeting with the teachers was pretty tough for them, and yet they all thanked me for the information and suggestions I had given them. They needed to be reminded that they needed to be at work on time. They had signed a contract and when Phyllis was away they played loose with that, and yet continued to sign in at 7:59. It was particularly hard to say goodbye to Solitu. I wanted to bring him home with me and get him proper medical attention.
Our trip home was interesting. We loaded everything into the extended cab pickup and drove the three hours to Abuja. Clement and Devin came in with us and all our luggage. Somehow my back pack had gotten gasoline on it and it really smelled bad. I had to remove everything and wipe off my laptop. I can still smell it now, so must have gotten some inside. Any how we were dropped off at 3 pm even though our flight was due to leave at 11:25 pm. Devin and Clement had to get back to Emi-woro before dark.
Long story short, we were in airports or on planes for 30 hours. It was a 5 hour flight from Abuja to Dakar, Senegal. Here we loaded on to near full capacity. They some people started leaving the plane. First a guy, then a whole family. Soon we were told that the grounds crew was off-loading all luggage. This had not happened in the 20 years the captain had piloted for Delta. There was some explaination about overweight with gas requirements - a long and confusing explaination. Of course most people were upset, but had no choice. My own take on this was that the people that got off couldn't identify all their luggage and for safety reasons ALL luggage was removed.
I just got the luggage at 3:56 this morning.
I think I might have left out some of the happenings between the last blog and this one, so will review and post more if that is the case.

Thanks for your support and prayers.
Carol