MY NYSC EXPERIENCE IN KATSINA STATE : FINAL DAYS IN CAMP
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As the days wore on, activities at camp started crawling to a lull. This is not surprising, as the monotony of each day's activities coupled with the fact that that Ramadan fasting was also on made the officials at camp to treat us a little bit with ease.
It was at this point I started enjoying the camping. There were many inter-platoon games going on, infact everything we did in camp, from marching to sports were competitions.
Platoon 8 in which I was,could be said to be a lazy platoon, to put it mildly. Be it drama, cultural presentation, anything at all, we were sure to carry the last of second to last position 😢😢. Our only saving grace was the second position we took in the 4*100m females race, which was won for us by this girl:
Roseline
I myself was also part of the male team but we couldn't muster any of the top 3 positions. We took the 3rd place in the football category however. For other sports and competitions we either crashed out successfully or took embarrassing positions.
I stayed in an hostel shared with the Army in camp, hence we named it "Army barracks".
Hostel mates
With Segun and Tobi
Platoon 8 fellas
Austine, this guy can eat for Africa 😂 😂. His meal ticket was always on point
Mr Soja 😎😎
It was too good to last however, and soon deployment letters were being shared and everyone started discovering their fates.
We the 21st century folks really have it good. We all can point to our parents and what education and learning was during their time before the advent of the Internet. All the education me from those voluminous text books that heaven helps you if you can't read them. It was a always a battle as they hardly had all the materials they needed to excel, as only a few students had access to all these expensive learning aids. The exercises in the Larcombes Class 4 edition my dad owned back in the day is enough to make an undergraduate shake with fear owing to the very tough questions in it. But, thank God for technology, we don't have to go through all these harrowing ordeals in order to be better students today. The internet is awash with millions of resources to help us. It is unfortunate that especially in this part of the world, almost 80% of our Internet usage is dedicated to mundane things like posting pictures on facebook, tweeting, Instagram, Snapchatting and the likes....
As soon as I got my bed I headed for the hostel. I chose a bed space, dropped my bags and made to registration. No time to waste. On getting there the crowd was much I nearly suffocated. I sha made it and got a Platoon and my kit. As anybody who had served before knows, the camp kits are nothing of your size and everything only an overweight person can be happy with. Wonder why they told us to take down our measurements on the portal sef. Mtssw. Typical Nigerian problem, I shrugged. The registration went on for two days. Thankfully I was through on the first day so rested the second day. By 4am the third day, a shrill sound from the trumpet rudely awoke me, summoning all corpers for devotion. This is the first welcome I got to the camp, I was so annoyed . wetin dem wan dey follow us talk by 4 sef? I grumbled then got to the parade ground. This was me on my first parade appearance in camp. This early waking up in the morning became sort of the norm each day, we would have dev...
The National Youth service Corps which was inaugurated in the wake of the Civil War of the '70s,affords graduates the opportunity to experience foreign cultures in Nigeria and thereby appreciate the country's oness. After ( barely ) making my papers and graduating from the Federal University of agriculture Abeokuta in October 2015, I was waiting for the day I will don the green khaki and the orange boots. I also harboured the fantasy of serving in the North and see for myself if the many stereotypes we have about the Hausas are indeed true. You can't blame me though, what with the Boko Haram menace and the prevalent Sharia law makes we southerners a bit apprehensive of them. My mobilization for the NYSC won't begin until January 2016 however, during which I did all my necesary clearances and paid my last dues to FUNAAB. by February I was able to register for mobilization and thus began the NYSC journey...
I myself was also part of the male team but we couldn't muster any of the top 3 positions. We took the 3rd place in the football category however. For other sports and competitions we either crashed out successfully or took embarrassing positions.
I stayed in an hostel shared with the Army in camp, hence we named it "Army barracks".
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