August 5, 2012
The first day in Yola was rather uneventful. Arriving just before the weekend made for a rather slow or delayed settling in. One of the AUN drivers took me to the market with my new supervisor, Robert, and his wife, Ivana, where I exchanged some cash and bought a few groceries and household items. Bargaining over pennies seemed especially pointless, but it's the way of the market. I presume the starting price for me was already sufficiently high that whatever 'bargain' I got was still an appropriate rate for a Bature (foreigner). On the way home, I picked up some tools to use to put together my mountain bike and a got a USB ethernet adaptor so I could finally connect to the internet. Unfortunately, it the ethernet adaptor required a driver to be run or copied from a CD that came with the product and my laptop doesn't have a CD drive, so I had to wait to try to copy it from someone else's computer to a USB stick or get ahold of an external CD drive. As slow as the day was, it ended with a sense of accomplishment, as I managed to put my mountain bike together.
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