Second round of exploration at Marian Market, down the road from the hotel, but this time with my colleague Jenni only so as not to scare the crowds with too large a group. We were looking for african fabric and handicrafts, and as I am a demanding shopper so I went through (possibly) every fabric store in the market to figure out what quality was available and at what price. No handicrafts to be found however nor bangles or necklaces, it is a shame the African market is being inundated with cheap chinese goods and plastic jewellery.
I brought a couple of small koalas bears from Australia to give to children along my Nigerian journey and started handing them out today, the first few attempts were quite interesting to say the least … the first little boy ran away screaming seeing the koala bear as a threat to the bunny he was holding in his hand. The second was in his mother’s arms and erupted in tears afraid of the tall white man! Ooops. Eventually I figured I should really just give them to slightly older children and I got very very big smiles in return :)
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