Service Year Boulevard -2

Did you pass through NYSC or it passed through you?....Ahhhhh stories!

My Nysc was in 2014 stellz of life.

Where do I start from. Camp.
The first week was horrible. Waking up very early to bath, the compulsory trainings, the watery kitchen food, the uncomfortable bathrooms, the dirty environment Chai my first week in Ekiti state camp made me cry like a baby cos I fell sick and wanted to go back home..

Week 2.. I was no longer a jjc, I had to toughen up and I turned my camp experience around. I started participating in activities, mingling and doing what others were doing to keep body soul and mind alive. I had a camp boo, that was how my eating watery food from their nonsense kitchen stopped. 

I upgraded to maami o no time for dulling. Every evening boo and I will stroll, gist and just enjoy the day. Ekiti camp then was so strict. They stole my extra cash I entered camp with from my padlocked box, stole my can. Thieves dey Sha..The variety night was something else. Soldiers slept with so many girls in that camp all to get good posting. Week 2&3 was really my best cos I loosened up and just enjoyed the experience.


I was posted to ikere in Ekiti to teach Chai another experience. The lodge where I stayed was owned by one 29 year old yoruba yahoo yahoo guy. He didn't hide it at all openly the guy was doing his thing see plenty laptops him and his friends were always carrying. How I ended up in that Lodge with other corpers if I think am e dey make me vex. 

I left lodges that were close to the road and my ppa to stay inside forest cos the house was new and tush. That yoruba guy just deceived us collected our money after we realized that not all that glitters is gold. No road nah bush entry we dey do before we reach ppa every morning, light! for where, water! na well water for another compound landlord lied. Whenever it rains like this na happiness cos we needed the water. Sigh. I was light skinned before service. 

The color I returned with let me not just go there.

The landlord was a happening man Sha he compensated us with enough treats yahoo guys can spend carelessly. We visited so many places, waterfalls, clubs, ondo, ilesa, lag, Chai I flex Sha. I still remember Asu their peppered meat we don't celebrate it like that here in the south but there na their regular.. Stella in ekiti corpers are valued. South South who has your time. Things were so cheap. The small yoruba I know today I learnt it there. 

My worst experience was when I had a nasty fight with my roomie Chai that girl provoked me. The fight was so dirty..Shes so introverted that sharing was a problem for her. We stayed together with other corpers but she's always the odd one out. Always complaining. why did you leave the kitchen open, why did you let them take the bowl, why why ahhh I tire. 

I always tell her it's just one year o this people you might not see them again after biko Nne let's just corporate serve and go. For where until money and who contributed what in buying what made us fight. We later settled Sha and still talk but I hate it that we had that fight. We looked out for each other during service and people always refer to us as twins cos we were always together. She just didn't know how to handle living with others I had to teach her.


What did I gain from my service year? Nothing! It only exposed me to the happenings in a different state with a common language. Ekiti has nothing to offer. The well to do ones are either in lag, Abuja or in the abroad and only come back during hols. It's like my village here you only go there occasionally to greet the aging ones and others. Then return back to the city to chill. In Ekiti even their capital Ado ekiti is no exception. If you say im not right defend ur state o. Na wetin i see I dey talk compared to where I'm based. Rivers!

I am forever thankful to God for seeing me through cos the journey no be here. Almost 8hours on the road. I traveled twice back home that year. Some started with us but didn't get to finish, some were kidnapped, some fell ill, but God saw me through..

My service year was all fun.. 

Shout-out to Batch C 2013/2014 corpers ikere ekiti state.

I'm still trying to remember that Nysc anthem Chai. "under the rain and in the sun something something" . Lol. 

RECEIVED AND NOTED..*new signature*