Departures....and mine near also

So the past few weeks have seen some of my friends going back home, which is sad as the place changes without them, but even stranger is that I myself will be leaving here soon, in like 10 days.....

Definitely will be nice to come back to a few things, namely people, food and running hot water! But it will be sad having to go and know that when they people left here to leave they will all go in different directions and even though I am sure I will see many of them again I hope, its having no idea when or where, in 1 year, or 30 maybe, which is hard for me to process

So the photos above, the one of the city is the slum which you can see from the 'park' down at the end of our road.

When I say park, I assume they want to open it up to public, as there are a few walkways, even lamps along some of them, and benches for people to enjoy the view.

But in reality the whole place currently has big fences up, and we only got in as we asked the guard, and after him asking us for money and we walked away, he did let us in to have a look.

Once you walk up the hill, you get that view across the 'lagoon' (it comes from, or goes to, the sea which is like 2km down the road, but its so disgustingly always filled with rubbish that its more a swamp, and I think it only has water when massive rain shower comes through), towards the CBD, but in the way is a slum area where I think a lot of the traders from the sides of the roads live.

There are apparently plans to relocate them soon, as I think a new road is meant to be built through there to help connect places and ease traffic, but as with anything here, that will take much time, apparently the park I think isn't scheduled to be open to public until 2012.....or something like that, not soon anyway.

And the other photo, from one of the airport goodbyes, this time of one of the people I lived with and who has been here the entire time I've been here, so the hardest one yet, until it comes to mine and I have to say goodbye to all!!

But always a plus, getting to travel, and getting to be back home for some time at least and catch up on NZ which I'm assuming has not really changed at all :)