Hello everyone !
I will be talking about a strange thing that happened to me recently.
When i got admission into the university in 2022, we were told to take pictures which was later used to make an identity card for us in school. As a student you need this identity card to be be eligible to sit down for test and examinations . For this reason i always kept my identity card very safe in my bag and i never for once misplace it
Last week, we were to go on an excursion ( to dizengoff and ventura in Ibadan) and i was having test the next day so we were told , to do the test the day before to be able to go for the excursion.
I went to the bag where i had kept my identity card but i couldnt find it , i asked my roomates and they said they do not know where it is as well. At first, i wasnt even scared because i had the mindset i would be able to find it in due time. But when i searched and searched and still couldnt find it for some time , i began to panic and was scared because i knew the problems that comes with misplacing the identity card.
I searched for my identity card throughout that day and i just had to not go for the excursion. Luckily for me, i hadnt pay for the excursion ( the money for the excursion was 7000 naira) . This was very painful as i couldnt join my other classmates in going for the excursion . I couldnt write the test as well.
They spent one day during the excursion and when they came back , they where telling me how the excursion went and how they had fun during the trip . This made me sad as i would have also loved to go as well if not for the circumstance at that period of time.
What I missed during the excursion
Afterwards, i began making enquiries on how to get a new identification card. It was at this point , i knew my problem just started as i was asked to bring several documents like affidavit from the court, police report and some other documents that would cost me a total of 12,000 naira . At this point what was going through my mind was "Why do i need all this just for an identification card?"
The 7000 naira i was given for excursion was still with me so i all i needed was 5000naira. I called my mum and told her straight up about the identity card and she said i should search well that she doesn't have any money to give to me. I had no choice than to start saving part of my pocket money to be able to raise the remaining money for the school identification card. I even starved myself for some days to be able to raise the money.
Last week Saturday, one of my roommates was arranging his shoes , he just saw my identification card in one of his shoes. I was shocked,excited and sad all at the same time because i knew the stress i went through in finding the card , just to end up finding it in someone's shoe. I literally starved myself for some days just to raise money for the card.
I was a bit happy because i could use the money i had saved to do some other important things and fortunately for me, they were some people who had not done the test so i just joined them and did the make-up test today.
Thanks for reading.