My goal on the third day was to visit the last things I need to visit in Kano and then figure out how to get to Calabar. I headed to the internet cafe to try to see what I could figure out. One of the options I looked at was to fly. There was a Virgin Nigeria flight from Kano to Lagos on Thursday and Lagos to Calabar on Friday. It would mean spending a day in Lagos. But it would also mean that I'd never be too far from civilization. And when I have no access to money and can't fend for myself, that's a good thing. The only problem is that the flight is N34000. I booked it and headed to the Virgin Nigeria office which, conveniently, is really close to the internet cafe. The Virgin website they could take a credit card there which would be good since that would leave me enough to survive.
But when I got there, they required cash. I counted out what I had and figured if I flew I would have not quite enough but almost to get to Cameroon--provided nothing went wrong and I could stay at the airport in Lagos. I decided to go for it.
I headed back and stopped at an ATM on the way. This time it said "Serious error" and canceled the transaction. Yikes! So the ATM is still not working. I waited for a reasonable time to call my parents and have them Western Union another $200.
I fell asleep for a while. At some point, there was a knock on my door. The woman from Abuja sent the hotel man up to tell me that she was in the bar. I don't mind if she tries to sit with me in the bar, but I'm not really into the idea of her interrupting me when I'm not there. I told the guy I was sleeping (obvious from the way I was dressed) and he said he would tell her.
I called and had another $200 sent to me. Then, I just watched CNN for the rest of the night. When the power went out and the generator came on, I turned up the volume. When the power came back and the generator turned off, I turned down the volume. Pretty much for the entire night until I went back to Dunkin' Pepper and had a chicken a fried rice.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 20:31 Nigerian local time
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