It is a weekend, i am so much happy for how it's going at my side here. How is it at your side my friends? Trust everything goes fine and smooth?

Experiences with friends, colleagues, associates and mates are always interesting and amusing, especially the ones we had at the early stages of our lives when we were less busy with the matter of Life. Those times that we would run around with our mates, play together, and do a lot . Those moments that we would sit together, crack jokes, and tell fascinating stories, this is how we used to do ours then, it was by rotation, most times i start the jokes, then move to the next person. We would laugh, we used to fight too, but before a few time we are settled and our togetherness continued, no wonder the Bible says let he or she that wants to make it to Heaven be like the small children, because no matter how the fight between them is, after a few seconds or minutes they are back to each other playing together. Hmm! All these things were just coming to my head as i was reminiscing the moments i had then in my elementary school.

Few months ago, a whatsApp group was created by one of my Elementary school classmates, it's purpose was for reunion, i was added and look! i saw people i have missed a lot. It's getting close to sixteen (16) years we graduated from the Seat of Wisdom Catholic nursery and primary school Akoko, Nigeria. Ever since we graduated we haven't had the chance of organizing a physical meeting whereby all of us could gather physically either on the school campus, or the off campus. We are looking forward to meeting very soon. Our plan is to meet by December this year.

My mates that were very close to me.

I will like to tell you some of the nice people i had privilege to meet back then in my elementary school, and were very close to me. One of them is Ola. This is his picture bellow, you can see how handsome he his, he is an elegant African Man.

Those day when we were still in the elementary school, Ola happened to be my sitting partner in class, a gist partner too, but we could only gist at our leisure time. When our teachers were teaching us we paid full attention, and wouldn't talk unless there are questions to ask. On of the many things i like about Ola was that if he doesn't understand a topic taught my the teacher, he would not stop asking questions until he understands it. Even when others call him "Mr Questionnaire" he wouldn't answer them coarsely, but in a polite manner he would say to them:

we all paid school fees for this, and that's why we are here. Don't make jest of me, and don't call me names. It's our responsibilities to ask questions that we don't understand so that our teacher can make us understand them.

He's doing great today.

Ola celebrated his birthday two days ago, all of us on WhatsApp group were informed, and we really made the birthday more attractive, our greetings and good wishes were all sent to him, Gifts in forms of money and airtime were also sent to him.

Another person close to me was Oluwaseun. Her mum was our class teacher at the final level. They lived in the school teacher's quarters. I could remember vividly, every break time, we would go to their house to drink water, but most time instead of her giving us only water, she would serve us some foods, sometimes it could be rice with fish, sometimes it could be bread, it depends on what they have at home. I like her, she was very generous, even till now her generosity is great, she copied it from her mom, nothing is hard for them to give out, they believe in the principle of giving to the needy. She is a similitude of her mom. I love and respect them forever. Recently i asked her how far she had gone about life, she told me got employment with one of manufacturer companies in Lagos Nigeria.

Blessing was also a close friend at the elementary school, but ever since we graduated we never saw, but thank God for the WhatsApp that brought us together again. This is her picture below

Few weeks back, she did her passing out parade (PoP) at the National youth service Corps, she posted the pictures there and we were all happy, and rejoice with her.

Some of my elementary school classmates that are now specialised in Robotics, artificial intelligence, and software science and engineering.

Through the WhatsApp reunion, I got to know that many of us are scattered across various works of life, some aren't done with their undergraduate (first Degrees), some are done with their Masters Degree, some flew abroad to study professional courses, while some are now into Business, they are Becoming great entrepreneur & business persons. I also heard some have gotten married and now with kids. You know that life is like "a Hand whose fingers are not all equal". Some have gone ahead in terms of achievements and greatness. Hmm! Though we were once in the same class, but the fact that each and everyone of us operates at different timing cannot be disputed. Most of us started together at the nursery section, but now life has shown its reality that we aren't all equal. No matter how life turns for any of us, we aren't ashamed of one another and we are always ready to lift and help one another. We just pray God bless us all, so that we can really assisting one another.

Candidly, having chatted my elementary school mates, it was really a sweet time we had had together, and we will continue to have. By December this year, we will have our physical reunion, you're highly invited.

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