Diary of an otondo ep7

Ep 7

As i'm writing this, i am listening to some banging new nigerian tunes, i got a brief spell of 3g and was able to download a couple songs off my home blog(notjustok.com)

Days left in camp can now be counted with the fingers on one hand, people are getting ready, making plans to what n what they gonna be buying into their 1year homes in ekiti, some people talking about prefering to stay in a village rather than the city(well theres only one, ado ekiti). Some already planning where to buy their tv's cos of warranty issues, some want to furnish their temporary 1yr homes to the depth. Some might actually decide to reside in ekiti which is one of the purpose of the nysc scheme.

On to platoon things!. I have never seen a group of individuals so disorganised in my whole life lol. We never form lines ourselves during the morning call out, we are the ones who never listen, the ones who has got a stoopid person for a leader. Right now, its like a country that hates its president and theres like this revolt. The leader who was voted in has fucked up on a lot of issues and he does more harm than good, rather than resign, he tryna fix what is completely broken. Enough of the serious talk, we only here for a few more days and all this talk and arguements are just not needed. As it stands, we wont be having camp fire night because of the stoopid leadership and snitch in our midst. Donations for the food n drinks don dabaru. These lot spent a good 3hrs argueing n shit on the day they wer meant to be getting ready for the night.

As for me, i was doing some kitchen duties again. I jumped at the chance  cos i thought it would be as easy as the last time, boiy i was wrong. I had to do some shit i havnt done in my life before, things like cutting frozen fish into several pieces and also washing them. The most annoying was the head, where you had to take out all of the rubbish in there lol. Sometime i dnt even know why i turn up for stuffs like this cos i know some certain people in this platoon that dont do shit atall and i could just be like them. After that i had to serve meat for lunch.. all the peeps in my hostel did the usual and made sure they lined up on my stand, and as a sure boiy they all got either the biggest pieces of meat or 2 lol. The serving finished and i decided to have some of the food cos it would have been a SIN(joke ting) not to have any after the hardwork. So i made use of my cooler for the first time and got the rice. The most annoying part was unlike others i got enough rice, but the meat given to me was one piece and even that one piece was a bony piece. I was pissed and i just couldnt be bothered to conplain. As expected the food was shit, but i just had to eat cos of the work i had put in.

Thug of war conpetitions started too, it looked easy but i saw some girls faint or just lay down flat on the floor suffering from exhaustion. I would have loved to participate but there was bigger n more muscullar men there so i continued being useless to the platoon lol. The guyz eventually effed up and the girls did well to reach d final.

No endurance trek!!! 'This tin pain me ooo'. . .this was one of the events i was looking forward to! They said due to security reasons, they wont be having the trek. to some, it could have been an opportunity to see outside since our 21day imprisonment lol. I guess it kinda made sense with the yeye boko haram people causing mayhem in the country, one of them can let off a suicide bomb whilst having the trek!!

Redeployment! O boiy, i dont think i can stay in one village teachn for a year o. I didnt have ekiti in mind before i signed up for nysc. I was thinking lagos or abuja which wont be as bad. So i am in the process of redeploying to lagos sha and i hope it works out.

Talent hunt show! Some funnies were on stage tryna claim a psquare, an alibaba or a michael jackson. Offcourse the comedy was gona be the best part, alot made jokes about in camp activities since the first day we step foot in here. We also had some really bad ones that we(audience) basically had to chase out by chanting away lol. The dancing bit was controversial. The crowd wouldnt pick 3, they said yes to 6 different ppl so they had to use judges from the nysc officials and they completely messed up!! The fans favourite was given 3rd, the only guy left who desrved atleast 2nd was kicked out and the least talented was awarded the winner. If it was an election there would have been a riot cos' alot of people wer busy chanting "ojoro" in the crowds, some even went as far as walking up to the so called judges to complain. I guess thats how it goes in this part of the world, all this interplatoon activities apart from football and volleyball looked rigged. Even the parade n drill competition is looking rigged cos if the commandant likes any girl in a platoon, they will end up winning (what i heard a soldier said). The entertainment was good but the deserved winners didnt get what they should have got.

Washing!!! It was always going to be tricky washing our white n shoes. It was basically unsafe becasue of the large amount of ninjas in camp. So we had a certain local who would come to the room and make annoucements that she is here to help wash our clothes. She gained everyone's hearts by volunteering to help sweep the room so she could get the 'contract' of our room. More than half patronised her service, her annoucements became a norm, "good morning o, wash your clothes, wash your canvas, sherifa is around" eveyone liked sherifa and we all helped her hustle. She even volunteered at one time to help people get money off the ATM, she travelled to ado which was like 45mins away to help a broke guy out. She was one of the good things discovered in my time in ekiti!

The camp director!! Mrs fagbemi was one lively and lovely old (not that old) woman who was well loved by majority in the camp. Eveyday, she made announcements on the parade ground with starters like "good morning gentlemen corps members" and we all replied "morn sir".  This was a every morning, we all said all she had to say before she even said it sometimes. She"s a woman, but apparently on camp everyone is a man and is reffered to as one.

I think i will save the rest for the last 2 or 3 episodes and a review. Hope you enjoyed reading.