Service: A privilege(Day 2 in camp)

"I cannot wait to see how you'll look dressed in your NYSC outfit, make sure you send pictures", my neighbour said to me as I left home for camp.

It was quite an interesting sight to behold at the main gate of the Lagos Orientation Camp on Friday morning.

Many buses which conveyed various Prospective Corp member from their different states to the Lagos Orientation Camp, their state of deployment.

There were friends that were posted as far as Jos, Sokoto, Enugu, Borno, Kano, Kebbi, Nasarrawa, Adamawa and so on.

I got slightly lucky though, would have gone to Anambra.

Compared to my own 1 hour, 30 minutes journey, they would be traveling for twice or even thrice the time of my own journey.

Mission to report to NYSC Lagos Orientation Camp.

Vehicle set!

Doors jammed!

Driver ready!

Engine starts up!

E.T.A. : 1 hour!

Journey began : 6:00am

Journey ends : 7:30am

....5,4,3,2,1.

Off we go!🚌🌪️🌪️😅😅

To my anticipated astonishment, everyone I saw in the camp were completely new faces. In fact, I was left wondering if we actually have all this students in Nigeria not to talk of having them all over the states in Nigeria.😂

Anyways, it was intelligible. My Alma Mata(University of Ibadan, first and the best as we pride ourselves) alone is a city on its own and even the most social person cannot know everyone. There would still be someone that you have never met.

Since we all shared the same same state of deployment abd we'll be stucked together for close to three weeks, it was easy to start a conversation when you meet a new person.

I finally settled down in my allocated room around 3 pm having undergone the normal checking and registration processes. I did some arrangements before going out to give myself a deserved treat of cooked indomie garnished with sausage and fried eggs😋😋 at the popular "mammy" market.

Today is when it really dawned on me that I was now at camp where I would be involved in a 21-day paramilitary training.

We went through rigorous parade rehearsals in preparation for the swearing-in ceremony scheduled to hold on Monday.

At a point, I was like; "abeg, na Mathematics I go study for school na".😂😂

People were fainting, the red Cross members were already on standby to take them to the clinic.

We were woken up by a loud trumpet sound at exactly 4:50am, we immediately went down to the parade ground. We said the anthems, prayers and meditation. Attendance was taken. And other short lectures, the interesting one was the Man O War. I love it.

I have an issue here, phones were not allowed on the parade ground, so I couldn't snap , but I paid a photographer and would get my photos later(I guess that's after the camp though.

Then we went for meal, Pap and 2 akara's(I'm sorry I didn't take it. I only took an apple and yoghurt)

Oh yeah! I was allocated to Platoon 6, so while platoon 1-5 were having their briefings, we the platoon 6-10 went through a rigorous match past, as tiring and strenuous as it was, it was interesting 😉😀👍. I think I'll consider going into military service.🤣🤣🤣🤣

We were dismissed to go freshen up and take our meal. After which we did the cleaning of the rooms and the delegated soldiers came to inspect the rooms.

After sanitation we went for a lecture on security. How to stay secured in your place of assignment. (It was a VERY boring 😴😒😑🙄😪 session) as they were repeating things we were used toover and over again. Prospective Corp members were sleeping, as they were tired as well.

We had an hour family meeting. Family meeting us a meeting held by each platoon. Platoon 6 met, we had a discussion on the various activities we will engage in. I joined the volleyball 🏐, drama and choir group. We have other groups, social, cultural, football, red cross, among others.

Please try not to be bored about my camp experiences. I know it's boring, but I need to pen it down.

I'll continue in tomorrow's writeup..

Thank you for following!😍😍

Eshey o✌️✌️🙌

Lead image: Corpers in action.