DEAR DIARY: NYSC CAMP DAY 1| Expectations Completely Shattered

DEAR DIARY: NYSC CAMP DAY 1| Expectations Completely Shattered

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Dear Diary,

It is a black Friday because I am in NYSC camp. Sighs 

 Although I did get posted to Lagos camp but still, it is a camp! Communal living and all that comes with it. UGH

So before I went to camp, I had all these fantasies about how my first day of camp would go. I would meet a fine guy, not just meet, but a love at first sight kind of meet. Trumpets and violins playing in the background etc etc.

But then first day of camp and no Greek Adonis, no tall dark and handsome Yoruba demon or even a short one sef cos at this point, beggars can’t be choosers.

It was just poor old me carrying my box and getting fixed up in a cramped room with 32 other girls with only 2 rickety fans and two windows for ventilation. Kill me now!

And then the khaki I was given to wear, Fat, shapeless and dull. Like how would my lover find me under this tarpaulin? 

Let me not even get started on my jungle boots, 5 times my size and unbelievably heavy to walk in. I started the arduous journey of getting someone to exchange it with and my nails broke!! A crucial part of my baby girl starter pack broke alongside my dreams of a camp lover. Wails

I am so exhausted. In retrospect, I should have forged a medical report of a fake liver disease to get out of this wretched place. Too extreme? Yeah I thought so too. 

It’s not all doom anyway, I hear OBS is a good place to ‘work’ so you don’t have to march.

I might join OBS tomorrow! And maybe meet him there, he would definitely be my soulmate if I do.

Oh My! Tomorrow looks better already.

By Arinola

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