The first time I experienced culture shock , I was 8 years old and yes my memory is fantastic . I had travelled home to Otukpo for Christmas with my family. Now if you’re Nigerian you know what this means. For those who know not, a lot of us live …
Tag: secondary school
In my previous blog I was simply going to blog about planning a wedding but somehow ended up blogging about my grieving process you can read it here. Choosing a chief brides maid (maid of honour) was one of the most stressful parts of my wedding. I had always known …
“My mother is the best cook in the world. Her….'{insert choice dish}’…. is the best in the Nigeria”. Almost everyone I have ever met, has that stoic belief that their Mom/Dad is best at one thing or the other, which I think is fabulous. I mean, Nigerians love to hate …
Are we capable of committing murder? Under the right amount of pressure would you actually think of killing another human being? I have been tested in this regard and whether or not I passed is left to the reader to decide. I had these two guys as neighbours when I was in university …
There comes a time in everybody’s life where you have to grow up and I had been dying to grow up for a long time. My older sisters where already in boarding school and the stories made it sound super interesting plus, I could not wait to have provision and …
In honour of fathers day that just passed last Sunday, I was inspired to start a Daddy series. My Dad and I over the years have had a very turpsy-turvy relationship and many times I have struggled to qualify what exactly my relationship with him is. Recently I came to …
The first time I experienced and understood what it meant to lack financially, I was in secondary school; JSS1 to be precise and unfortunately for me it wasn’t a case of me seeing someone else lack and being shocked by it (that would have been a better introduction), but even that …
Some Mondays are created to remind you why you hated school in the first place and why you were supposed to be Dangotes’ Daughter so that you would not work a day in your life. My point being every single assignment you didn’t do over the weekend and all the …