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Sunday, 10 May 2015

i can't believer it borno state!!!

BORNO!!!...The guys infront of d system chorused..i swallowed hard in disbelief...stretching to see the screen by myself..BOR-WAT!!...seriously!!! It was Wednesday....a very boring one...so much anxiety in the atmosphere and I didn't want to catch a breathe of that anxious smoke...so carrying my gas mask of quietness...i tried to dismiss the frequent wandering thoughts that went in the direction of the obvious atmospheric nysc call up letter saga...it should have been out since Monday...so excitement mixed with anxiety was building gradually in the atmosphere....IS THE CALL UP LETTER OUT?...HAVE U HEARD ANYTHING?...CHECK ONLINE NOW!!!....everyone was driving themselves to the land of anxiety and that place I seem not to wanna go....i just can't afford the price tag it comes with...i can't pay the price of being cranky and overly excited and worrying and stewing and fussing....i am just gonna play as if am not aware of everyone's expectation....but the truth is...deep inside me...my mind also wandered around it quite too often...so the crankiness began....my friend called to ask...HOW FAR?..ANY NEWS???..thats it!!!..i was upset!!!....i don't wanna talk about it!!!...he didn't know!!...he was just concerned and happy for me!!! More happy for me than even myself..he would joke about the nysc camp often and often..calling me *corper we*...*corper wa*..but I was in no mood for it dis afternoon!!..i gave a cranky grinchy response on phone.....i felt bad as soon as I hung up the call...he meant well.. and I knew it...so I had to call back to explain...I'M SORRY, I JUST DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT IT!! It's making me cranky and anxious..now he understood!!!..i wanted to go home(lagos) today(i was in abeokuta)..bugsy is supposed to come along with me but he had to go to school for his final paper!!...so I was waiting...atleast so I could get away from the already anxiety saturated abeokuta atmosphere!!..he was taking so long...my bags were packed ready for final departure..i joined in for Wednesday service while waiting for bugsy..soon one of the prospective corper came to church..obviously she had a news...as she dragged another corper-to-be out...the news soon got to me..SOMEONE HAS SEEN HIS!..ITS OUT!!...So automatically I grabbed my phone and off I was to the site too...after fumbling and fumbling with the site with no access for a while...i had driven myself to the peak of cranky...i got out of the room I hid asked others...have you seen yours??.the site is not opening jor!!...YES I have seen mine was the reply....i tried again on my phone!!..still no access so she decided to help me on her phone....it went through but first I had to upload my signature before I could access my call up letter...another drive to the cosmopolitan cranky city of anxiety....All this while, it looked as if time was moving faster than normal days...impatience was smiling at me..and I smiled back.i had to get to the popular BRIGHT CAFE./Where the heck is thay BUGSY!!!*..i kept calling and calling his fone...by now, I was at the full blown cranky and anxious....the cafe was already full of people scanning signature, checking call up letter and printing...i joined the sizzling crowd.(oh,sitted amidst the crowd were some of my church members who had just seen theirs)..some were having mixed feelings about their deployment states..it was a long name-calling wait period before my signature was scanned and finally uploaded on the nysc site....by then I had already worn an impatience no.7 jersey!!!...as I waited for a free system,i motioned to a guy who had just checked his to help me with mine...so he and one of the cafe attendant were on it....as the system processed it...they turned back and chorused...BORNO STATE!!!...I was shocked!!!..i expected NIGER STATE...I had dreamt NIGER state...! BOR-WAT!!!...I Called mr Tolu to inform him...(hmmm are u sure??..how can u say am I sure....the paper is in my hand jare!)..and I called my dad...(let's not talk about wat dad had to say)..mum later picked her call and I told her!!(u know mothers..she was first overjoyed by the fact that d letter is out and that am coming home...then borno became visible...ah borno ke!!! iro o.)..it was almost 6pm...and I was still travelling to lagos....Atlast bugsy showed up....in my unbelieving shock..i just motioned to him as we head down to get a cab to the park..sigh!!!..i looked at him and said..Its borno!!..he didn't believe so I handed him the printed letter..(he had also been a believer in the minna dream I had)..all the crankiness and anxiety was gone ...i was just in shock and numb!!!(does dreams really come through in nigeria...pls anyone who has an affirmative answer should contact me ASAP for a roundtable dialogue...pls come with proof o)..we just wanted to get out of abeokuta....it was a scary bike ride all the way from camp to brewery!!!...we were home around 9pm...we had a borno night!!!

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