A weekend of fun with me alone.

“You don't have to own the whole world to enjoy yourself. All you need is to use the little on you to enjoy life, whether it's not up to what you'd expected. At least having something is better than nothing.”

Princessbusayo

(I hope you can read that statement again to understand my point)

One thing my sister would always hammer into my ears is to enjoy life because it doesn't have duplicates. Yes, I fully embrace this particular statement clearly because there is nothing we would take back when leaving this world. You have to live your life to the fullest. Even if you don't have much with you, at all, at all, na im bad. This is a pidgin language which means having a little is better than having none.

One thing about me is that I love eating good food, no matter how expensive it is. Food is life and you should spend what you have and forget about that challenge because if you truly believe, God will make a way for you.

Nevertheless, don't be lazy. Do not think manna would fall from heaven because we aren't in the era of the Israelites.

I got a gift of $20 to enjoy my weekend and I should spend it alone. What am I going to do with the money? A lot! I have my plans made down for the weekend and the first thing is to convert to my country's currency, and after doing that through P2P on Binance at the rate of #650 per dollar, I got 13000 naira. That's a lot of money for me to spend on weekend all by myself.

One of my favourites food is Poundo Yam. I should have chosen Rice for this weekend but I have been eating it and I am already tired. So, let me go for swallow and instead of stressing myself pounding yam when I got no strength, life is being made easy with Yam flour. All you have to do is to boil some water and get it done within 5-8mins maximum.

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I love taking my swallows with Vegetable soup and not ordinary vegetables but with seven lives (in Yoruba, we call it “elemi meje”)

(Let's see if mine would complete elemi meje) 😂😂

The ingredients would consist of vegetables, Locust Beans, Palm oil, Maggi and Salt, Roasted fish (Eja Yiyan), Chicken/Turkey/Meat, Stockfish, Crayfish, Ponmo (Cow's skin) and Poundo Yam. All these would cost me #3750 and I would still be having #9250 change left. I would get a Malt drink with the #250 on top of the #9000 to go with the meal after which I would sleep and have my peace of mind.

Mind you, my vegetable is still left in the pot and I might just decide to cook some rice later in the day because I love it when I just cooked a fresh vegetable soup with those sweet little angels roaming in the soup and eating with Rice. Have you tried eating both combos? 😋😋

The next day, the weekend continues. I would visit a beach for the first time in my life. There was a time I enquired about a beach in Ondo state and someone directed me to this particular one.

Picture of Araromi beach in Ondo, taken from nairaland

I and my three friends planned going but after listening to the bills, it amounted to #20,000 for the four of us. This means, that if I have to go alone this time, I should be spending #5000 (to and fro) which is still a good one.

Going to the beach for the first time would be a forever memory in my mind because that would be my first time stepping my foot in such a place. I need to be alone and have the best moment with nature and see how cool the sea is.

By the time I get home, I should be having #1000-2000 as change left because I would get something at the beach to keep my company and enjoy myself.

That means the remaining money would be kept in my pocket till another time. With this $20, I hope I would satisfy myself to the rim and get excited about visiting the beach which would fascinate me.

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