The City Life style

I have been wanting to live in a city like San Francisco. Moving from the suburb of Danville /San Ramon area to the city life. But again the universe send me to Brazzaville. Like when I ask to be by the beach , the universe sent me to the petroleum town of Pointe Noire. There must be the reason why I am here and I want to cross teh river to Kinshasa asap to visit the old compound where I use to be. I already ahve my golf bag. That also I want to do. Going to play golf. May be I will find a good teacher here what I can have in Pointe Noire. We will see. But first I need to find a house. My husband has found a chauffeur for me. Not very professional like Armel, the one trained by Willy in Pointe Noire but nevertheless. Ramane is really a jack of all trade. He use to be and still is military person with certain political inclination. He use to work with the president company doing the security for his trading office in town. I think he has problem of payment and has been providing service without getting pay so he quit.Then he do the garage to repair cars and again it is very difficult to get paid for service you gave in Africa. So he prefer to work with expats and render his service through an agency. That's why he end up as our chaufferur right now. HE seem to know every street and every car in Brazzaville. We will see what's next. I also met this guy Jean Claude who ask that I pay his taxi for him to come to meet me at the Meridienne hotel. That is strange and Ramane my chauffeur also agree on that too. Fulvia, I think got the service of Destin the contractor guy to drive her here and there and Ramane use to be the fill in for Destin when he is on holidays. I am quite surprise when he asked me to sit next to him instead of staying behind like most of the time. Anyway, I don't mind and I can see Armel also not wanting lift suitcases. I can see how pretentious thsi cadres are. And that's African. I think the mentality of this habit in Thailand has die down already. Anyway, I think I found the house that I like and it is very city style and I can't believe that I will like a house that has no yard and no swimming pool. I think my children will not like it for sure. No place for sun bathing but they can do that somewhere else. Like the Meridienne or Olympic or go to Kenya or what. My two girls will probably come for a little bit but I don't think my son will ever come to Africa again. He is fading from from our routine life. We just meet together 3 times briefly over the holidays season. And even that, I feel the energy of that is fading too. Meaning I will have my life back more and more. Children they are all going their own ways. Only the two us left together. So the house must reflect that kind of life style and not have to think about the children bedrooms permanantly all the time. Anything that is not this Chevron apartment will be o.k. with me. WOnder if I still have Dian ( PA Deang) myspace page. I like to look again. She has her life the way she like now and she went traveling to many part of the world looking for her companion. I like the Burmese restautant I went with Pa Deang and Dini before we came here. Africa , Africa, I am sure I will be finished with it soon. Today I learn about the good president of Congo Marien Guabi. They have his monument up, they name a university and square and road after him.He must be a good president and he was assasinate in his own house like Gabila in Zaire. These AFrican countries still have a long way to go toward leaders as states man. So far we know only Nelson Mandela.