Monday, March 17, 2008

Meeting with acquintances in Vienna, Austria

The month was November and the year was 2006. I got this mail from InWent in Germany asking if I would be interested in attending an Infra conference holding in Vienna Austria. Of course, I jumped at it because I needed to take off time from the stress at the Rutam House. After all the necessary formalty including the very unfriendly embassy staff at the Austrian Embassy in Abuja where I went twice from Lagos even when it was not necessary to bring documents of my children who were not travelling with me on the four-day trip. I finally landed in Vienna enroute Amsterdam on a cold Tuesday morning and was met by the very good InWent staff who had booked accomodation for the ten of us from Africa and Asia.
The conference showcased the latest trend in the digital world.I won an Ipod Nano in a raffle draw where we were supposed to drop our call cards. That Ipod, i carry about jealously all over Lagos and I have a load of music collections in it. I met some of ma friends whom we earlier attended a course organised by InWent in Berlin, Germany 2004.

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