Diary of the otondo. Ep 2

Hi guyz..

First day in camp was filled with so much excitement!. The journey to camp was kinda tricky, got stopped by police in ibadan!. Fucking bastards just said "this vehicle is stolen" beCause we had customised plates..blah blah blah! My guy was taking me to the station and we just had to settle cos if we went to the station, they would make us do some long processes and probably detain us because they know they can. but i got there in the end and met up with some guyz i had connected with on nairaland and twitter.

The day started off with a bag search, my stapler, and all important sim cutter was siezed because they termed it dangerous. I'm kinda struggling with network as glo is kinda shit. I messed up with this one vos i could have got an airtel or mtn before coming to camp which i knew was the better option. So far we are expecting mtn and airetel to bring a full load of sims to camp so we can buy n do the stoopid process of 'registering'

So far, nothing about accomodation is imprressive.i guess this goes the same as other camps. We are in a room the size of my living room and have a flipping 21 bunkers! Thats 42 people cranked up in one little place. It was very dirty with loads of rubbish all about the place but we all contributed 20Naira for an outsider to help sweep it. Looking better at the moment but i have a feeling these muchachos i'm staying with will start dropping pure water bags n shit on d floor again.

In this small room, we have a comedian already, a warri boy who doesnt stop complaining in a funny way. Last night was fun but we had to tell him to shut up cos we had only a couple of hours to get some sleep for the 4am early call; which we all had to be on the field as soon as we heard the clarion call.

Clothing provided by nysc is nothing compared to shit. Shit might actually be better lol. The socks looks like something i cnt even describe. It was a good idea bringing extra pairs from home. The khaki looks big but i will manage it, aint nobody got time to pay N1500 to amend shit . The annoying thing about this is that there could have been a better way of sorting out issues of oversizing. These lot just give u a kit , they dnt care what size you are. You can be a size 8 and end up with a size 11. And they dont give a shit. You can ask a simple question and they will land you with a rude reply that doesnt even answer your question.

The parade training!!! Everyone is being trained with codewords on how to march n shit. We line up in platoons and our platoon leader (a soldier) gives us d training. Looking at other platoons and their captains, i think i ended up in the wrong platoon cos its filled with too much unserious people and our captain is kinda dry compared to the others. We r still far behind in the training compared to others. Our guy is just plain lazy.

Foood!! As soon as we got released! I ran straight to mami market!! Mama nonso!! Having being told by 3 different people about mama nonso, i just had to try it out. I had d jollof rice and i was dissapointed! Will try her other meals in d coming days. Food provided by nysc? Dont even go there. These lot give you one spoon of rice and one small fish, sometimes u end up with d head of a fish. I dnt think i will never step foot in there to queue for that crap. Then i wouldnt say that out loud with these people especially infront of our comedian who spent a lot of time raking about the food. You gotta be considerate about stuffs like dat cos some people are not priviledged to enjoy mami everyday.

Its 2nd day esrly morning and i have been up since 2am. Queued to get some water for bathing wich was long cos a lot people was surprisigly awake tryna get ready. Bathing will be an issue cos i saw a couple of peeps bathing outside and i thought wetin thes guyz they do? But after going into the bathroom once this morning. I think i will be copying thosr guyz bsthing outside in the dark the coming days.

Its 10minutes to 4am.  Gonna get ready to be called out for d morning shitzo.
Looking forward to meeting some new people in my platoon today.
Otondo!!! Call to attention, coooooooode 1!!!!! Lol. Ciao

Pardon any errors. All this was from my phone.