Greeting My Beautiful Friends, How is your day going? Can I steal some moments of your time, please!
It was almost 2 and half years after I completed college and I got a job offer in Spurs Ranch. There I worked as a waitress day and night tirelessly to earn and sustain myself, it was a tough one.
Nigeria's system is not or never like the American system where things work differently. Life wasn't easy for me been a girl child because the responsibility of being the first of the family rested on my shoulders...(now that sounds like Merlin hehe😂😂)...
“You will know when a whole salary you earn in a month will vanish into thin air like phew phew ”😁😁 Most times I had to feed once a day in other to save some money for myself. That was how it's going every day till seconds became minutes, minutes became hours, hours became days, days became a month, the month became years, before I knew it time flown.
One very fateful day I closed from work, I started thinking about myself I have been working and saving for school but still, yet it looks like I haven't saved a dime..... I have always wanted to go to school that particular chase has kept me working!...... I broke down in tears and beat my chest and say “No matter what I MUST get admitted one day”
On the other side, My mom with her pressure me to get married and to moved to a man's home... let's put it this way my native name is “uzoamaka”* (a native name meaning my path is beautiful)*...my mom saying “uzoamaka when will you get married” another phase of thoughts. I looked at her and smiled and said “don't worry mom God will do it”.....
That is, by the way, I have plans for myself and will work for them.
It was time for Jamb Utme, I read my books and went for exams, I had scored higher than the cut-off mark, I had two choices of university, it's either UNILAG (University of Lagos) or UNIZIK (University of Nnamdi Azikwe).
I read a lot you know but I was working at the same time, my colleague was reporting me to the boss. Now's time for Post Jamb, I gave an excuse at work for a couple of days traveled to write exams what happened was still shocking...I was almost there at the cutoff mark in both schools, just add additional 3-5 marks am good for admission but no they gave me another course.....I hated that course.
I never stopped reading, So I continued the hunt of getting admitted this time I stopped working because it almost ruins my chances of getting admitted. I worked till the end of the year and stopped, I repeated the process of writing Jamb Utme and Post Jamb this time I changed my choices of schools I chose IMT (institute of management technology) Enugu and (YABATECH) Yaba college of technology.
It was stressful I wrote exams in Lagos, the next day I traveled to Enugu to write exams, I was on a hot seat I read intensively day and night. After some days I checked back and lo and behold I was admitted to both schools, I was super excited and extremely happy I shouted for joy.... isn't this my Proudest Moment.
You might be having challenges in what you're chasing but never give up, I said never give up, keep striving you will surely get there.
“My Proudest Moment was GAINING ADMISSION INTO THE UNIVERSITY.”
Did anything special happen to you? What was it? It could be something you have wished for! It could be a Dream Wish and it came into existence! Or it could be an answered prayer request! Whatever it could be I would hear lots of them, You would share it with us, right? But in a short precise form hehe😉😉 but always feel free to narrate most things.
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