Finally it was Monday the 20th of August 2007, all goodbyes has been made at midnight, we've already began to miss one another and yet happy to go back home, it was my best moment so far, i looked at myself in the mirror, and i said "thank you" to who? i don't know, for why? i can't say. maybe for not falling sick, maybe for the initiation of such a vigorous project, maybe for being able to hold up the group to this point where the real affection for one another showed up without any form of pretence. Our bus to Douala was for 6 a.m, and it was a heavy rain that also wept over our departure, the gods are with us and above all almighty Allah never for once disowns us.
The adventure didn't end like a Hollywood nor Nollywood movie. Arriving at the Douala international airport, here i first notice, throughout my whole experience of travelling, Cameroon gave me a new surprise, there is a special tax to be paid by all passenger travelling internationally, so we had no choice than to change more money, even though we couldn't eat anything before rushing out to get the bus for it was not a priority, i lost my mobile phone during that transition, Matthew broke the locally fabricated Chess board he bought from Nairobi Massai market, we couldn’t cry out, our souls were already in Lagos, the only thing left in Cameroon was our bodies. another surprise, the Virgin Nigeria airline that left Douala to Lagos was redirected to Ghana, due to the weather condition in Lagos and it was this same flight that will come back to pick, this was already 2 p.m for a flight that would have taken off for 11 a.m, so we knew we are in trouble. In brief, the flight arrived around 8 p.m and finally we got to Lagos around 11 p.m.
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