Welcome To My World

As I rummage through the heap of my clothes on the bed in the dark and the heat, I silently curse the day I decided that moving back to Lagos was a good idea. This doesn't make any sense. There is no reason as to why I'm sweating buckets literally seconds after getting outta the shower. *sigh* It's only 6:15a.m....I shouldn't start the day complaining.

I recently moved to Lagos after living out of the country for a few years. 70 days to be precise. I've been out of my comfort zone for 70days. When the option of moving back to Lagos was brought to me, I was very excited cause I was fed up of being homesick and broke and moving back home to me meant: No skipping of meals..unless I wanted to and a constant inflow of money from the parents. (So naive) I refused to think about the lack of electricity, water, security, good roads, laws, peace of mind...I can go on...

I was told I moved back at the wrong time (This is from a 'lagosian' apparently, there are particular seasons to move back home) I moved back when everyone was home for the holidays so all we were concerned about was partying, going out, weddings, beach days and all the fun stuff you do while you're on vacation. The only difference was, I wasn't on vacation..my mind was.

So January comes around which means the holiday is over for everyone. Out-of-towner's start to head back to their countries and lagosians start to head back to work. Where does that leave me? Home alone with no light and no life. How did this happen?

Fast forward to a couple of weeks later to Corporate Nigeria CharlieCran! *Yay* So now I have a job working in a bank.(I have tonsss of stories about that too) Treasury Dept $$$$ and that's pretty much the only thing I currently love about being here...BUT..I'm willing and prepared to have an open mind and try to make the best of my hopefully limited time here... I've had some good times and some bad times but I'm hoping and praying it gets better.

~CharlieCran~