Chronicles of an IJGB: The working world.

I struggled for 9 months to get a full time employment in London after graduation. Now, 3 months in, under the name of NYSC, I’m working 9 hour long days. 7:30 – 4:30, and that’s only because ‘I’m still new.’ Apparently, it gets worse.

I’m not even going to dwell on that.

But hey, I can’t complain… I’m living without BVN to parental bank account, so that account is closed up. So a job isn’t half bad, besides, if I don’t work, Lord KNOWS what I’d be spending my time doing. So I work… in a school. No I don’t teach. I’m administrative staff… a fancy way (at least I think) of saying I’m a secretary.

Chronicles of an IJGB: That time in camp.

My 6 week hiatus is explainable. I was in Camp. An yes, I could've used my phone, but really, phone battery life is more valuable than that. Lol.

So, many people have asked, why exactly I'm in Nigeria, and well the truth? I'm here to do NYSC. For those of you that don't know, explore and understand. Anyways, the first hurdle of this programme is 'camp'.

I could go on forever with tales of what happened, I could go on urging you all to go, and make those of you who chickened out feel like weaklings and that, but i won't. There's better recounts and more interesting tales on Culture Custodian.

But I'll share a couple interesting things I learnt/observed: