Home Sweet Home! There’s No Place Like Home!
Today is exactly a week and half since I got back home. It’s been really intense meeting up with old relatives and friends that I saw last about a year and half ago. Things did not change as much as I expected, things looked very much like I was never away for 14 months. In Lagos the prize of every thing almost doubled, it was really shocking for me, besides Lagos things looked very much the same in Owerri and Nsukka, I guess it’s been the same in Abuja, I’ll be heading to Abuja over the weekend. I feel very much like I have been home, surprisingly no Italian feeling J
It feels really nice with everybody coming around to see me; there is this feeling of importance that comes with it. In my University, it was overwhelming. Like I expected, I kept on buying drinks for old friends, I expected it so I was prepared. Actually this era was extremely short-lived because just after my arrival, most final years finished their final exams so the reason for asking for drink now changed from ‘’Chike you came back from International MC in Italy’’ to ‘’You Just graduated’’ you are now a super lion (as people who graduated from my University are addressed) you have a B.Sc Nig or B.Eng Nig (a title no other University in Nigeria can offer… really prestigious), so I turned from the person offering the drinks to the person accepting the drinks, that’s one good thing about Nigeria, the drinks will always come around, even if you do not have the money, the people seem to have a perfect understanding of this.
This evening it felt really good sitting around and having beer with so many University friends. It brought so many University memories back. There were fresh graduates, people who just finished the compulsory Youth service corps, and others who just came out from an extremely stressful exam period.
It appeared that AIESEC in Nsukka (my LC which is the newest LC (came up from the splitting of Old AIESEC Enugu LC) has been recruiting both goats, chickens and human beings, every guy or girl that came around was introduced to me as an AIESECer with the usual funny name like AIESECer Fungus or Bat or Aziza (Broom Stick) it also reminded me of the old tradition in my LC of giving funny names to individuals as their AIESEC names, anyway these names always depicted something about the individual in question. For instance I am AIESECer Bomboy (which is something like baby boy) you can figure out why I have this name yourself. They were always introduced to me, as ‘this is 5 Star General Bomchiano!’ From the look on their faces, I bet they’ve heard a lot about me, it appears that I have become an important element for AIESEC Positioning in my LC. That feels really good J
It feels really nice with everybody coming around to see me; there is this feeling of importance that comes with it. In my University, it was overwhelming. Like I expected, I kept on buying drinks for old friends, I expected it so I was prepared. Actually this era was extremely short-lived because just after my arrival, most final years finished their final exams so the reason for asking for drink now changed from ‘’Chike you came back from International MC in Italy’’ to ‘’You Just graduated’’ you are now a super lion (as people who graduated from my University are addressed) you have a B.Sc Nig or B.Eng Nig (a title no other University in Nigeria can offer… really prestigious), so I turned from the person offering the drinks to the person accepting the drinks, that’s one good thing about Nigeria, the drinks will always come around, even if you do not have the money, the people seem to have a perfect understanding of this.
This evening it felt really good sitting around and having beer with so many University friends. It brought so many University memories back. There were fresh graduates, people who just finished the compulsory Youth service corps, and others who just came out from an extremely stressful exam period.
It appeared that AIESEC in Nsukka (my LC which is the newest LC (came up from the splitting of Old AIESEC Enugu LC) has been recruiting both goats, chickens and human beings, every guy or girl that came around was introduced to me as an AIESECer with the usual funny name like AIESECer Fungus or Bat or Aziza (Broom Stick) it also reminded me of the old tradition in my LC of giving funny names to individuals as their AIESEC names, anyway these names always depicted something about the individual in question. For instance I am AIESECer Bomboy (which is something like baby boy) you can figure out why I have this name yourself. They were always introduced to me, as ‘this is 5 Star General Bomchiano!’ From the look on their faces, I bet they’ve heard a lot about me, it appears that I have become an important element for AIESEC Positioning in my LC. That feels really good J
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