Today is Monday, 3rd of June 2024. I’m currently writing this in my lecture hall in school. It’s 10:45am and lectures will most definitely not hold, but here I am. I guess I missed school a lot. Lmao. (Believe the memes I post about hating school at your own risk 💀)
I may stay here till 12pm then head home. I initially planned to visit my bank’s branch in school and sort out an issue I have with making transactions with my Mobile app, but due to the NLC Strike, they’re not attending to anyone. Pain! Na only 500 Naira Dey there sha, so e no pain me too much.
I’m done with first semester in uni! Yayy! 4/5 months went by so fast. I’m happy to be done though. By the way, it was last Friday I realised we learn different courses every semester. I legit thought I’d come back to those crazy courses. Thinking about it now, I realise we paid for text books we barely used! I fit cry.
We wrote our exams for like two weeks and I’d like to think I did okay, at least better than I expected. Results won’t be out until like 3 weeks from now. Anxiety is killing me.
In all, it was a good semester and I’m grateful to God for helping me through it. I’m grateful for the friends I made along the way; I’m grateful for the enemies too… I’m grateful for the experiences that have changed me in one way or the other. I pray this semester will be better than the last.
I got a new phone some months ago! I know this is irrelevant information to you but for context, a lot of personal skills hinged on me getting this phone. For instance, I was finally able to take my video editing more seriously. I enrolled in an online cinematography and videography course last December and it was open to us from February this year. Storage was an issue during those first two months but now, I’ve made considerable progress with it. I now have way more storage so you’d catch me taking pictures and filming random things at random places. Cinematography is something I have always loved so I’d do my best to not give up on this in the long run.
You didn’t ask for it but here’s a list of some of the shows I’ve seen over the last few months that are worthy of being mentioned.
For Kdramas: Pyramid Game, Queen of Tears (super recommendation) and The Atypical Family (ongoing).
The only tv show I enjoyed was ‘Shogun’ which you can watch on Hulu or through other means 🙂↕️
As for books, I have been inconsistent with reading. I got a lot of books in April but chose to start ‘Stay With Me’ by Ayobami Adebayo. Halfway through the book, I got really impatient and spoilt it for myself by reading the major events and saw something that’s a huge part of the plot. Now I don’t know if I’d ever finish the book again.
Within the same period, I started ‘The Middle Daughter’ and I was warned of how sad it is but went ahead nonetheless. I haven’t had the mental strength to pick it back up again…
I’m currently reading ‘Nightbloom’ by Peace Adzo Medie and I love it. It may be my favourite read so far this year. It’s in a Ghanaian setting for most of the book but it doesn’t feel any different from the other ones I’ve read. Peace Adzo Medie’s other book I read last year, ‘His Only Wife’, was my favourite read in the entire year. That should tell you how good of a writer she is.
On a realer note, during the last few months, I felt completely disconnected from a lot of things I loved. Writing was one of them. I got to a stage where I hated anything I wrote. From my daily journals to birthday writeups for my friends to anything. I felt horrible and thought I’d never write here again. Reading beautiful pieces here made it hurt more. It wasn’t exactly me comparing my writeups with others’ writeups, but it was more of me feeling like I had to do more, but I mentally and physically couldn’t and that was what hurt. I had to mute my Medium notifications because it added to all the emotions I felt. I don’t know how I was able to get out of it, but I’m thankful I’m no longer in that condition.
Well, my phone is currently at 5% and I didn’t repair my power bank’s charging port during the holiday, so I have to go home to charge it.
I also can’t think of anything else to write and I wouldn’t want to push it. Sooo I’ll end it here.
Thank you so much for reading. Stay good. Don’t forget to put on your sunscreen and drink a lot of water. Till I post again. 🍃 ❤️
