Hard to believe it’s already February 7th. The dry heat of the harmattan teased us with a short return, but now it’s back to the sticky, wet, unbearably hot humidity. Most of my friends in Wisconsin are probably still reeling from last night’s Super Bowl win. I decided not to watch the game because it would have meant staying up until 5 a.m. In a country where hardly anyone knows what the Super Bowl is, I figured I could forgo it this year. Congratulations to all the Packers fans out there.
I took these pictures today in between my two classes and many conversations with professors and students about the situation in Egypt. An interesting story is coming about Nigerian’s opinions of the revolutions spreading through many of Africa’s Arab countries.
View of UI from the top floor of Faculty of Arts. On the right you see the student agriculture fields and the left is the Faculty of Education.
My new friends and I posing in the Faculty of Arts quadrangle between classes. These girls are all my age, in my African Prose Fiction class.
Women all over campus, like these three here, work all morning and early afternoon sweeping leaves, debris and red dust for the street to make UI campus clean and beautiful. Sometimes I think these ladies do the most work out of anyone on campus.
I love how green it is. Keep taking pictures!!!
Cara hw r u? Ur pictures grt. I lyk d positnin. Meanwhile, id lyk u 2 watch ur generalisatns. ‘hardly any1 in ths country’. U knw Ibadan is a grt place bt rly mayb cnt b compard to lagos in many ways especialy in ‘westernisatn’. hvnt livd in d US, bt knw very well abt d superbowl, NBA, halloween, thksgivin, black friday, grammies, the Oscars/AMA’s etc.. These r evnts ma frds and i made topic of discussns while growin up. Tho i criticise d effect of westernisatn, i dt thk u got it so right if u thk cs people around u dt knw abt ths, then mayb every1 doesnt it. Bt d truth is its nt popular here. Nw do u wonder y it shld b. Well, I dt. Cheers
Hi. Cara hw r u? Ur pictures grt. I lyk d positnin. Meanwhile, id lyk u 2 watch ur generalisatns. ‘hardly any1 in ths country’. U knw Ibadan is a grt place bt rly mayb cnt b compard to lagos in many ways especialy in ‘westernisatn’. hvnt livd in d US, bt knw very well abt d superbowl, NBA, halloween, thksgivin, black friday, grammies, the Oscars/AMA’s etc.. These r evnts ma frds and i made topic of discussns while growin up. Evn tho i criticise d effect of westernisatn, i dt thk u got it so right if u thk cs people around u dt knw abt ths, then every1 doesnt it. Bt its right if u say the “majority”.
Hi sweet girl! Great pics. You and your friends are so beautiful. Giant hugs, Cara. You are truly a special girl.
Loves,
Michele
Great pictures! I’m an avid sports fan but I only started following american football a couple of years after I got here (the US). Became a Steelers fan and so i’m gutted that they lost. However I enjoyed the company of the people at the watch party, so it wasn’t too bad.
Congrats to you wisconsinites and the green bay packers. They deserved it.