Hello everyone, how are you all doing today? My day was looking like it was going to be stressful, but it turned out ok. The stress I was talking about was in school, we were suddenly called in today after nearly 2 weeks of staying away from school.
You all remembered I talked about doing my outstation field training some weeks back, I was part of the first batch that went for it and after the 3 weeks of the training, we were supposed to go back to the university and resume the in-station training at my departmental fish farm.
The thing is, we all agreed amongst ourselves that we will take one week break before we resume activities at the fish farm, but this is the second week now and most of us haven't resumed 😂 I said to myself that I will start going to the farm on Monday, but when it finally arrived I postponed it to the next day (which didn't happen as well 😆).
There's actually little to nothing to do at the farm, so that's why a lot of us are finding it hard to resume, coz we are just going to spend the whole day discussing with each other and being unproductive. A few of my classmates that have been going to the farm once in a while have told the rest of us rebels that the place is usually devoid of people and even the farm manager is on leave, and that's the motivation we needed to stay back home.
Yesterday, I was at home as usual just chilling out and watching a movie, then something pushed me to open my WhatsApp and go through the different groups (I usually mute my groups and only open them when I really want to check on them), and that was when I saw a message sent by my class rep in the class Whatsapp group.
He said the head of the department and our coordinator wants to see all of us in school tomorrow by 9am, that there's a task for us to do and he is going to take attendance of people that are around (just great 😩). I would have ignored the message but the attendance got my attention. That message just ruined my plans of staying home throughout today and just doing nothing.
The class rep sent the message late at night and I knew not a lot of people will see it, which just mean a lot of my classmates won't show up, so maybe I shouldn't go as well? I was in a dilemma, so I just put it off till the next morning, at least by then I will know what to do based on the way I woke up.
I woke up in the morning and my brain was already screaming; "don't go!" But a friend of mine was already pestering me that we have to go, so I obliged. I was still in the bathroom when she was already screaming my name that I should hurry up, and I found that very strange, how so?
She's usually someone that doesn't take the activities we do at the farm serious, and I was even thinking I will be the one to talk her into going today but it was the other way around; she was now the one motivating me to go 😆
I got out of the bathroom and truly, this lady was all packed up and ready to go, and it was still 8:30am! Where was the stubborn girl I thought I knew? I told her there was no way in hell I will be leaving the house at 8:30, coz I know nobody will be there at 9am, all thanks to African time.
African time is a concept we usually use to mask what it truly means; a simple lack of punctuality. Whenever people say an event will be starting by 9am, just know that the real time the event will start would be around 10 or even 11am.
We left the house at 9am and arrived at the farm at 9:30am, and there was nobody there! Not even the class rep has arrived, I looked at my friend and said "I told you so". After about 30 minutes, the class rep arrived as well as some of my other classmates, but we were just 5.
An hour later, the assistant farm manager arrived and told us that the task we were supposed to do has been put on hold 🤦 at that point I was already regretting why I had to come, I should have just listened to my instincts and remained at home, I should have remained stubborn.
According to oxford languages, stubbornness is having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good arguments or reasons to do so. So in this case, what was the good reason for going to the farm? 🤔
I ended up just having a conversation with my classmates, and that itself was a distraction that kept me away from readcash all morning. That is the reason why I have always been reluctant about going to the farm, I wouldn't have the time to do anything online because I will be distracted, and that would've been a good reason to be stubborn 😁.
I still have a lot to talk about on this topic but I don't want this article to end up being a 10-minutes read, I will just cut it short here and continue tomorrow.
Thanks for reading 💖💖💖
Thursday February 3rd, 2022
How many times have we found ourselves in such an irritating situation. Class rep will announce in the WhatsApp group that a doctor who had never taught us since the beginning of the semester would be coming first thing the morrow morning. Olny for us to come as early as we can, some would even skip breakfast even the ones staying off k will rush and come sef for fear of the being very strict since we have been hearing alot about him, only for class rep to report to us that the man called again and said he wouldn't be able to make it. That's after we had spent over an hour under sun. The cleaners wouldn't want to open lecturer theater for us until they see the doctor.