12/02/2007
Dear Adriel,
Sorry for the lapse again. I have not had time to sit down and have a chat with you for a while and its my fault. i have gotten so busy with school. Oh well, I want to let you know that have taken up swimming as well. I go to Ikeja hotel to swim once in two weeks - without my Mum finding out of course. You know how she hates swimming, after losing a cousin in the pool. Never mind that it was a local pool and there was no life guard.
Anyway, I should perfect my back stroke next week, then I will move on to the butterfly stroke, and the crawl. I had this fantasy of representing Nigeria for water ballet in the Olympics. Fantasy right?
JAVA is keeping my mind occupied, and I am not feeling any pain - during the day anyway. The fact that my mates are serving and I am trying to keep my mind occupied comes creeping on me just as I am about to sleep.
Then I heard another classmate of mine is getting married. At 22. Cool, right? Wrong! She is marrying a 33 year old man who just wants to settle down - or so the gossip vine says. She looks happy, and that is all that matters - for now.
I gotta go, Adriel. Will try to ensure that the gaps are not too wide.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Life must continue
09/01/2007
I started the classes. Quite nice. Our teacher is a beautiful lady that doesn't smile at all. I was able to get my books today. The tuition covers books and tutorials, I was told. And then it was a surprise that I got my books so early, because most of the other class members didnt have the term's books.
On school front (University of Lagos, Computer Science), I am definitely not going for National Youth Service Corps this February. Since it is compulsory that every graduate in Nigeria serve her motherland, I know I have to go eventually, so that will be in September. But I have to occupy myself somehow. JAVA classes are one way but I have to find another.
I started the classes. Quite nice. Our teacher is a beautiful lady that doesn't smile at all. I was able to get my books today. The tuition covers books and tutorials, I was told. And then it was a surprise that I got my books so early, because most of the other class members didnt have the term's books.
On school front (University of Lagos, Computer Science), I am definitely not going for National Youth Service Corps this February. Since it is compulsory that every graduate in Nigeria serve her motherland, I know I have to go eventually, so that will be in September. But I have to occupy myself somehow. JAVA classes are one way but I have to find another.
In the Beginning
Today is the first day of the year, and everybody is supposed to be extremely happy to have made it over, but I cannot honestly say that I am.
You see, in my country, things are on shaky ground. This year there will be general elections to elect a new Government, new governors, new local chairmen, new everything. And this is the first time that we are going to run a democratic election - everybody is scared that it will not come out right. Even little me.
Sorry, I am not a political activist or fanatic or anything. I am just an average citizen of Nigeria, that is praying for peace. I see pictures of what war has done to other African countries and I do not want it to come to that. Everyone is praying for peace.
Dear Adriel, I need to let you know that I think I am still comfortable with the things that are happening, even though they are not in my favour right now. For one, thanks to a "mistake" by the examination and results officer in my department in school, I am not going for NYSC this February. And considering that everyone turned up for my graduation ceremony, I don't think I want to show my face in the University of Lagos, and start explaining to everyone who asks me, "Why are you still here?"
God knows it was not my fault that I got a missing result - that I had rectified more than two years ago. I still wonder why the lecturer did a thing like that. Anyway, Mum has promised to pay my fees for taking a certification course in NIIT, here in Ikeja, so that should start next week. Three months.
You see, in my country, things are on shaky ground. This year there will be general elections to elect a new Government, new governors, new local chairmen, new everything. And this is the first time that we are going to run a democratic election - everybody is scared that it will not come out right. Even little me.
Sorry, I am not a political activist or fanatic or anything. I am just an average citizen of Nigeria, that is praying for peace. I see pictures of what war has done to other African countries and I do not want it to come to that. Everyone is praying for peace.
Dear Adriel, I need to let you know that I think I am still comfortable with the things that are happening, even though they are not in my favour right now. For one, thanks to a "mistake" by the examination and results officer in my department in school, I am not going for NYSC this February. And considering that everyone turned up for my graduation ceremony, I don't think I want to show my face in the University of Lagos, and start explaining to everyone who asks me, "Why are you still here?"
God knows it was not my fault that I got a missing result - that I had rectified more than two years ago. I still wonder why the lecturer did a thing like that. Anyway, Mum has promised to pay my fees for taking a certification course in NIIT, here in Ikeja, so that should start next week. Three months.
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