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2011 has been a roller coaster year for me in many ways! Thankfully the plunges to the bottom were not as terrifying as they seemed! Now I am past the trough I can look back and laugh! Though I daresay Im looking forward to 2012 with a lot of expectation and fervor. Like most Nigerians do, I have not yet put a label on what I want 2012 to be for me but I  know  its going to be a good year! Yay! So here is wishing all my blog readers a fabulous 2012. I wish for you all you wish for yourselves and more. May the new year be a year of more introspective thinking, more measured and thoughtful decisions; a year when we all will look outwards to bless and touch the lives of others and not just look to what we can get for ourselves. Below are some pictures I took throughout 2011! Happy New Year!!!!! View from the sky! Chicken without feathers around its neck- Bagauda, Kano Emir of Biu's palace- Biu, Borno A medicine store I wont be caught visiting! ...

This is the last of the letters I wrote before I left and returned to Nigeria! Have some pictures from Nigeria too to put up! Thanks for reading and all your comments! Merry Christmas and have a lovely New Year! I have just two full days to spend. It dawned on me a few days ago that I will definitely miss my time here. I have been excited about my impending departure dreaming of using once again the luxury of a toilet and bathroom not exposed to the elements with the attendant comfort of being able to read a book in it. I had also been dreaming about tasting my mum’s superb meals for the first time in a long while and also getting as excited as my niece who asks her mum continuously if next week has arrived so she can see her ‘dear’ aunty tomi! Then my mood shifted and I realized that there is still so much more I would have wanted to do, more of the Somali language to learn, more of the great people to talk to and listen to their stories as well as their complaints of all t...