Thanks for the pictures and the recollection. Hearing about family buzzing with children, lots of food and good memorieswas nice. The images are not what I would normally think of when I picture Nigeria but they appear like people having fun.
Also I totally understand about children not understanding the pressures of adult life and just running for fun. I envy them.
Thanks for posting
Weelllll we have some very nice places here, parks museums and other captivating tourist attractions. It is normal to wonder since there are many stories of woes than the happy ones that don't often make it here...
I might go out often and bring you more pictures so that you can have other ideas of our lives down here.
Hehe, @rare-gem did that in her holiday post. I hear stories of people going hungry because its so expensive for food. I hear stories about buildings caving in because of poor construction. People being afraid of being kidnapped. Gives a pretty scary image of the country.
Then I see pictures of people enjoying themselves in a carnival like place with tasty food nearby. Kind of ruins the image of "this place is brutally hard ;)"
In the end I just have to admit that I really know nothing. I really can't understand it. But I'll still present a dream and leave it to you guys to tell me where I'm just a little too crazy ;)
This is the summary of it.
We have some good and lovely places here just thesame way it is with having some good and quality Nigerians with good character.
We also have ugly places and ugly in character people too.
Just like having a two side to a coin. It's left to you fo decide which part you want to be surrounded with.
I envision the Philippines. It has parts with great beauty...but they are often underdeveloped and difficult to get to. They have wonderful loving people as a whole but the few bad ones make everyone's life miserable. They value family and faith above all else but that can get in the way of progress when you hire someone related rather than the best. They have places that are advanced and rival (or exceed) that of Canada while other places are pure squallor.
Maybe its not the right vision, but I have to think of something :)
Lolz @terganftp , it's not that bador let me say depending on the state you are in. People living in the northern states might not enjoy what I enjoyed because security is so low there but for where I live, that is my state, it's more peaceful here so we can go out and have fun just the way we want it.