Iron Lion # 1

the quoted word is actually Jenny's. Jenny is a wonderful petite Australian grandmother who coordinates PSI's international solidarity programmes at Ferney-Voltaire, France. I first met her in Nairobi four years ago and we have come to be excellent friends since then.

I had mentioned to her that there doesn't seem to be a strong pub culture here. She then told me that her son - who is a musician in Japan - had lived in Vienna for six years and she assured me of a bubbling subterranean bohemian dimension to the city.

The explorer that I am...I did go around! I enjoyed the Bermuda Dreieck (triangle) area the most - lotsof pubs, discotheques, etc. And once I'm thru with this keyboard, I'm heading for Flex; I learnt it's DA very club, rocking the city tight presently; if u know what I mean.

I wish I don't miss my flight tommorrow ( or later this ) morning...and I guess I have to thank Nyala once again, I could just have checked my box and then hit the road to catch some fun...skipping blogging.

Till I'm back in 9ja once again,

adios amigos!

I've been off blogging for a while as a personal protest of I to me...it seems. It gets boring when friends don't have anything to say about anything one says. At times silence could be louder than the most boisterous of noise.

Anyway, I've been at Vienna for some days now. It is great to be part of history here as the Public Services International marks its Centennial as a fighting organisation of workers of all lands.

...it's also been fun in more ways than one.

Home really is so, so sweet! I'm quite happy to be back home and I'm revving to go!

It's going to be quite a busy week for me in so many ways and since I'll soon be travelling out again, I still have to find enough QUALITY time to spend with my beautiful wife and the wonderful kids we have.

Many a time I wonder if they ( especially her) do beyond tolerance...understand.

But mes amies, yes I must say...9ja dun gan! ie Naija is very sweet! and I'm back to be back here on the block.

Voila!

its like the feeling you get of finding water - and a very cold one at that- in the desert.

I have been in Benin since saturday and its my first time of being on-line!

We arrived in cotonu saturday afternoon after an interesting drama at the border- I will be telling that story later- and on Sunday we were shipped down here. And where is here u might ask? The rustic town- quite more like a serene village- is some two hours drive from cotonu on the way to Lome, Togo:

It really reminds me of high school. The hotel is quite okay for study, no distraction of tv - except u speak french! no intercom, with a small table u could put ur laptop on and work

The discussions have been robust and the facilitator is quite intelligent, though I think he is not quite of the school of thought of participant-driven active learning process.

I have had to check my mail and postings here from yemmy that has been faithful with my blog- thanx comrade- before posting this, and we have a film show on globalisation in barely fifteen minutes time. The cybercafe being quite a walk from the hotel - today has been the only sort of low pace day, that gave the room for discovering it- I just have to run now.

its like the feeling you get of finding water - and a very cold one at that- in the desert.

I have been in Benin since saturday and its my first time of being on-line!

We arrived in cotonu saturday afternoon after an interesting drama at the border- I will be telling that story later- and on Sunday we were shipped down here. And where is here u might ask? The rustic town- quite more like a serene village- is some two hours drive from cotonu on the way to Lome, Togo:

It really reminds me of high school. The hotel is quite okay for study, no distraction of tv - except u speak french! no intercom, with a small table u could put ur laptop on and work

The discussions have been robust and the facilitator is quite intelligent, though I think he is not quite of the school of thought of participant-driven active learning process.

I have had to check my mail and postings here from yemmy that has been faithful with my blog- thanx comrade- before posting this, and we have a film show on globalisation in barely fifteen minutes time. The cybercafe being quite a walk from the hotel - today has been the only sort of low pace day, that gave the room for discovering it- I just have to run now.