"You Were Posted to Bayelsa"
The five words that re echoed in my ears for so long. For a girl born and raised in the north you'd agree with me that going to the south of the south was more than alarming especially knowing well you thought you'd be posted closer. My mum's "blood of Jesus" was another sentence that re echoed considering how many times she said it in shock😅
I always anticipated going to serve my country, the thrill that came with crested cloth and the words " you're government's property" always made me feel rather sweet.
This was me around 8 years when my brother served and we visited him.
Moving on to my journey to unknown, I was at the park ready to leave by 2pm, my mum stayed with me through out which made me feel the last born butterflies
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my car finally took off at past 11pm, in which the journey was smooth well so I thought till 11am.
Our car spoilt, and after waiting for approximately 6hours,
it was fixed....I was jolly to soon, two minutes later the car stopped again
I was getting frustrated and pissed looking how I'd hate to enter a town I've never been to in latest hours considerable so I doodled to while away time
Finally, one of the men, I'd forever call him "God sent" brought down my things, his things and the other lady's things, after all we were the last three who stayed in a car of 12people. He got us a car to move to benin, where i got this potato pie in the name of meat pie 😅
where we had to board to sapele Park around
I had told him about my crises, so we were to together through out, we got a car to warri that night, he had made a reservation at a hotel for me(although I paid as expected)he bought me dinner, took my things to my room. I was super scared I shared my location with my sister😅
The next morning, he came around ,picked me and took me to park where I could board bayelsa car and waited till I left, now if that isn't God sent I don't know what is
I already had swollen eyes and legs
Finally got to the camp after so much struggle, they received me with love and care, felt Peaceful for a moment 😅
Till i figured we wake up 2/3😅 then i was shaken by such atrocious act
As time moved on, i got used to it and Ofcause they gave us breakfast,lunch and dinner
It wasnt bad, except they wanted to use eba and beans to kill us 😅😅
I was in charge of my platoon's drama in which took overall second position 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Yeah, the picture is extremely blurry 😅😅but that was me in the gele, acting as the narrator, script writer and director.
Then, i was part of the costumias for my platoon's miss NYSC in which we took third 😅💃🏾🤭
Then we had our carnival day, my platoon represented Tiv
After all stress, on the last night in camp, me and my new acquitted friends went on an Ice cream date
And ofcause, 21days done and dusted, came in fast and left quickly 🥲🥲, everyone was with their boxs out as ready as 5am
Had to take pictures of a river considered small in bayelsa 😅
And finally arrived at my new state of deployment OYO state
This thus far is my journey from Zaria in Kaduna To Bayelsa to Oyo, it was indeed amazing
Thank you so much for reading, feel free to drop a comment 🥂🤭
All pictures carefully taken by me