Crazy Roads!

Hello Everyone,

Well, I've recovered and everything is going excellently. Now I didn't say according to plans, just that things were going well. More on that later. Anyway, I had a lot of fun today. We're in Lagos staying with a friend and we're going to go to our real home (in Nigeria), in the town of Ile-Ife on Tuesday. Until then, we'll keep xploring t5he city of Lagos. We drove out today with one of our relatives driving us (we're sooo lucky). The streets are C-R-A-Z-Y. People will walk right in front of you, they could be five inches away from your bumper, they don't care. Cars are weaving in and out of traffic, nearly bumping you into who-knows-where. At some points, I almost gasped. We were driving in the congested street, with shops melding into shops on the sides, when a man came and rapped on our car. So then my relative asked him what his problem was, and he said a rapid string of Yoruba, one of the native languages of Nigeria. My father then told me that he said that he didn't want us to drive that way, or something like that. It was really fun riding on the streets. Like they say getting there is only half the fun. Anyway, we went to the Lagos University, or Uni Lag, and it was a nice break from the hustle and bustle in the city. Have you heard of UMass? It's a university in Amherst Massachusetts. Like Uni Lag, it's secluded and peaceful, and most the people you see walking around are students. Also Uni Lag has a nice park. The park is on a swamp near the longest bridge in Nigeria that goes over a large body of water. We also had the best fast food I have ever tasted. Unlike like american fast food places that sell fried chicken and french fries and hamburgers, the Nigerian Fast Food places sell spicy unfried chicken with coke or 5alive, a Nigerian drink. When I say spicy I don't mean american "Spicy hot sauce" or "super hot chicken wings", I mean a paste drizzled on chicken made of chopped chilis and jalepenos and the like. Once you have it, you can never go back to blandish tasting McDonalds. After that, we got out some delicious sugar cane from one the people that were running out on the street trying to sell the things. To eat sugar cane, you bite into it, chew it, then spit out the leftover fibers. After we got back on the road back to our friends house. That was when madness happened. These people called self aqccainting police men will get into the road and "Conduct traffic", but really they're just trying to cause choas. Literally.

Sorry

So sorry,

I haven't posted in a while because I've been on a British Airways plane for almost two days...well, I'm in Lagos, Nigeria, and it's been great. I had some Okra soup, a soup made of okra, sometimes with crab, somked fish, and beef, and eaten with a doughy substance called Ebba. Really tired at the moment, can't post for long. We're going to live in Ife, but our house isn't fully built so we're waiting.

Signing off,
The Traveler

Stuff has shipped

This is excellent,

Our furniture and ecquipment we'll use in Nigeria just got loaded off of this huge Penske truck. You could've lived inside side of the truck if you wanted to. Our stuff is being shipped now, so then everything will get to Nigeria next year. And (I've probably said this before) we're leaving on October 28. So for a few months, we won't have any computers (except our centuries old IBM Thinkpad laptops with ancient ATI Radeon graphics), no beds (at least for me, my parents will buy their own bed), and barely any books, toys, or boardgames! This sounds like a nightmare, I know, but it actually isn't that bad. We'll get to explore a lot of the town we're living in Nigeria without all of those distractions. Well, more updates later,

The Traveler

P.S: We're not bringing our flatscreen TV because our voltage wouldn't work in Nigeria. We'll probably get a TV later in 2010, but hey, you never know what might happen. ;)

My Pictures

Hello,

I got the pictures I promised, here they are...

This is Lagos, NigeriaHere's another picture of Lagos. Lagos is the 15th most populous city on Earth.

This is a picture that we took on the top of the Eiffel Tower showing Paris France.

A picture of the Eiffel Tower that we took.

A picture that we took in London England.

There you go.

The Traveler

Sick, sick, sick

Hi,

Since I'll be moving to nigeria with my family I had to get all of the Vaccines. Some of them made me really sick, like these pills I'm taking have made me throw up! I woke up two times feeling like I was going to hurl. At least I know these are the regular side affects for some people. The good thing is that I only have to take only one more pill.

Signing off,
Xplorer

Welcome to Adventure!

Hello,

My name is The Traveler, and i'll be posting my xplorations and adventures right here in the blog called The Xplorer. I've been outside the country about four or five times. I've been to France, London, and Nigeria, and I'm only 11! Don't believe me? I'll post some pictures in my next blog. Anyway, I'm moving to Nigeria, a country in West Africa that has awesome cuisine, amazing cities and very kind people. We'll be moving on October 28, so soon i'll be talking all about Nigeria. More info about Nigeria will be told later in other posts. Until then, signing off.

The Traveler