This is to continue from yesterday’s letter. I needed to take some photos, so that I could show you the people that I talk about in this next part.
I will tell you about some of the Nigerian people that I meet each day. Firstly, there is Lydia. She is our house girl. This means that she does the washing, ironing, cleaning and some of the shopping. This sounds very grand, but is the usual thing out here, and it means that Lydia has a place to live (in the staff quarters at the base of the apartment block) and also earns a good wage to support herself and her younger sister, Grace, who lives with her and is 12 years old.
Jude is my husband’s driver. Where he works, there are 3 drivers and they drive the staff around the city, and also collect visitors from the airport. Jude always smiles a lot, but is a very good driver, and he needs to be…the Nigerian drivers are usually very dangerous, and accidents often happen. He lives with his wife and children in a village outside Abuja, as the houses are too expensive in the city.
Then there are the guards. They work 12 hour shifts and change at 6 o’clock in the morning and evening. There is one woman guard, and the rest are young men. They wear uniforms, and their job is to check people in and out of the compound and to switch the generator on when the electricity is off. One of the male guards has a motorbike, of which he is very proud! He also has a laugh that sounds a little like a dog barking, which I think is a good thing if you need to scare people off!!
That really is all for this week! Hope you are thinking of some good things to post to me on the blog and also names for the blogsite.
Love from a still very dusty Mrs Sanchez !
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