@Ozzyy 14 July 2020 more from that month

How do YOU relax?

One of the best ways to motivate yourself for subsequent efforts and days ahead is to find a good day to relax. Deviating from popular opinion, my leisure time usually happens on Monday Nights. There's no dispute that Monday is one of the most annoying and stressful days in the week, so I figured I'd make the evenings an escape from the crushing strain put on my body by the lecture and activities of that day. As soon as I get to my apartment, I leave my shoes in a haphazard manner on the little veranda as I rush to my bed, seeking its warm embrace after such a long day. I'm not one to indulge in daily siestas (honestly, cut the crap with all that health and wellness, some of us have a lot of things to do), but it is mandatory for me to have at least an hour of sleep on A Monday evening, especially since I return from school at 3:00pm. I'm usually awake by 4:30 to 5:00, and then I'm hungry. Unfortunately, **cooking** isn't my forte, as I'm more or less considered a threat in the kitchen. So as usual, I end up eating out. Most times it's usually Jollof Rice, a popular food in West Africa. It's Rice cooked in tomato stew and ingredients. `Don't ask me how I know this, knowing how to cook and actually doing it right are two different things.` I've actually thought of posting one of my cooking disasters in one of the recipe groups on Read.Cash, but they're looking for good food, not effective poison. :D Most times, I usually have what I want to eat in mind: a craving. It can be roasted plantains and fish, noodles, or just bread and a cola. Other times, I like to surprise myself, going for the first thing I see that appeal to my eyes, taste buds, and doesn't look like it'll wage a war in my stomach. I guess that's where cooking by yourself one-ups eating out. The rest of my Monday Evenings are spent at my friends' apartment. Chiagor and Dozie (Never bothered to know their English names; why are boys like this?) roommates and are in the same department at me. While I'm thee, we usually do a few things: Bet on football matches. It's common among boys. We do it for fun, and just to ry our luck (which considering our luck, is terrible). Devise strategies to talk to girls (that we never use) so as to see who gets a girlfriend first (a bet no one's likely to win). Tease ourselves. Three of us are legends in banter in some respects, so this is mainly about one of our failed effort to talk to girls. Have discussion group sessions with some of our other colleagues. You really can't expect us to while away all that time (but if you did, you really wouldn't miss the mark.) Argue about football, girls (I know, we talk way too much about girls, but we're young adults, what did you expect?), music tastes, and basically every topic there is. In their company, I find myself taking more of a **Creative Problem Solver (CPS)** role. I always have to look for damage-minimizing. clever ways to end their arguments which happen, well, all the time. Chiagor and Dozie are both cool, but they mostly have a mild cat-and-dog relationship. Their arguments are never serious, but they're always arguing because they have directly opposite habits. Chiagor is more conservative: Catholic to the bones, Knight in shining armor and an all-round Mr. Nice Guy, with a slight touch of liberal. Dozie is fully liberal, and is a free spirit with his thoughts and beliefs. In a nutshell, there's very little these two can agree on. I am just there to balance the rift as someone who cares about everything and about nothing at the same time. The day ends more or less the same way it began: We all head into the school campus for a night-time experience, and either go to the study halls to read, or to the game halls to watch the football matches and watch our bets all work out, or end in an epic fail, **laughing out loud** at each other. ______________________________________ **It took 17 minutes ;)** **I'm sorry but I had to finish this freewrite, although I'm not sure what category to put it in. I guess it is a freewrite using the prompts, and doubles as a diary.** **If you think this is great, you'll be thrilled to read the story I'm working on:** Taken https://read.cash/@Ozzyy/taken-1ad0eaae Taken 2 https://read.cash/@Ozzyy/taken-2-1498e6ea **This series are good too, if you're interested in a good laugh:** Streets of Africa https://read.cash/@Ozzyy/streets-of-africa-part-one-1a4d7ef0