Hello everyone, welcome to my blog. It had been such an amazing weekend with a whole lot of activities, from having a workers retreat meeting in church to having rehearsals for our FYB Sunday, which was held on Sunday, the 29th of June, 2025, and it was such an amazing event as emotions filled the air.
I would like to say a big thank you to the admin of the weekend initiative for constantly coming up with different writing engagements here, which has kept the community growing. I have been following this community for a while now, but this will be my first post here.
It is said that ten children cannot continue to play for ten years, and the reality of this statement is so true because you find that one way or the other, people always come and go out of our lives, so transfers might take one of those children's parents, and they have to follow, and for some, they have to go to school in a different environment.
Based on the first topic for the weekend engagement community, I reflected on first getting into school as a direct entry student in 200-level, and I made some friends of like minds who attended general classes together. Although some of them were not from the same department, we became friends, or should I say acquaintances. We shared some of our goals together, and together we said we weren't going to let the bad influence of school affect us.
Fast forward to our 300-level and 400-level, we started taking our core departmental courses, which reduced how much we saw of each other, and then our final year came, and on the day of sign-out, I was shocked to see one of the guys whom we read together during our 200-level days and talked about the fact that we would not allow the pressure and the bad influence of the school environment to affect us, and he was already into hard drugs because I saw him smoking, and because we only saw each other once in a while after our 200-level, he was shocked too to see me, probably because he must have remembered those conversations.
Change is one thing that is constant in life, but we have the power to determine the kind of change we want—positive or negative.
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