Day 3 ::: Last night we arrived in Umuahia. It's a city in Eastern Nigeria and roughly 45 minutes from the village my mother grew up in. We arrived late in the afternoon and much of the town was going dark. Still  there were tons of children playing outside...as well as people walking home from the market and other places. We're staying with some friends on the top floor of an apartment complex.  When it was fully dark, we sat for a bit...then we sat some more :)  There were some issues with the generator and the wiring in the apartment so it stayed dark for quite some time. I wish I had captured the whole process on video. It was quite a story to tell. I held the flashlight for the electrician as we went from room to room rewiring things in the ceiling. Then we screwed in new bulbs. And then we walked down step after step to the generator in the backyard. After revving it up a few times, there was a light. Light never looked so good!

Later that night, Chumumaka, the daughter of the woman whose house we're at, she and I wrote a song called "Song for a Day". Actually...it doesn't have a name.  But we wrote it about my trip from Abuja to Enugu to Umuahia all in one day.  Its a pretty pointless song, but...something fun. Here are the lyrics. I have video and I'll post this later:)

We landed in Abuja
Then in Enugu
The road was bumpy
The baby was grumpy
Then we came to Umuahia