Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Nothing is Routine in Nigeria.

I have started to settle into a a pattern here, well at least a daily pseudo-routine. I wake up sometime before eight to eat breakfast of oatmeal, eggs, and toast before we start work at nine. I do some form of work or group discussion until lunch, work some more until evening, then dinner, followed by more work or a presentation or a movie, then I go to bed sometime before two.

Okay its not much of a pattern. It involves a lot of sitting in the studio, sitting at the dining room table, and being at a computer.

The weekly schedule follows something like this: Mondays we pow-wow and get a clear schedule of what we are doing or discuss any events, strategies, goals and assignments for the week. We have pin-ups on Wednesdays and Fridays, which is fun to get to see what everyone is working on. Various fellows usually come on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Then Saturday we take a tour of an Anam region.

This all being said, everything must be decided in the moment depending on factors that change frequently: the weather, who is around, the boat's availability, security, etc. I am having lots of opportunities to practice flexibility and adaptability to the timing and scheduling of Nigeria.

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