The first time I got to the university I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to be there or go back home, but one thing was that I had no choice to be there because my school fees of more than half a million has been paid, so I just had to be there and get used it to the new change of environment.
When we first got to the school, of course everything was strange, and the worst part was that we were not informed that the school authorities doesn’t allow students to cook, the security men at the gate began to search our car..they brought down our gas cylinder and other cooking stuffs before allowing us to proceed inside, the only exception was the garri and groundnut and other provisions.. that means we have to actually buy food everyday!
When we got inside, I saw different set of people in a big space with everybody doing their own thing, so my younger sister and I finally hustled a room, the woman in charge said to us, “the name of your hostel is Jungle lodge and your room number is 7”, my sister and I looked at each other and wondered what sought of name was that!.. we left the woman’s office and began to ask people around where we could locate the hostel, a 200level student who was kind enough showed it us and we also became friends.
We got there and unlocked the room and to our greatest surprise the room was more than jungle itself, everywhere was filled with dirt and was also smelling, and we were also told that our roommates were yet to come, because we would be up to seven in a room, Jesus!! I couldn’t take it!
Premium tears rolled down my cheeks, my brother and his wife who escorted us had to pay a woman to help us clean the room before they left for home, while we were settling in and arranging our stuffs, they turned on the school generator and this lightened up my mood a little but the joy didn’t last as I didn’t know that when it gets to 7pm, they usually lock the water flow and when its 11pm they turned off the generator.
Immediately the generator was turned the first roommates that visited us were giant rats, they were just running everywhere like they owned the room, I was literally scared to death, I couldn’t barely sleep through out the night.
The next day, we met the girl that showed us the hostel and thankfully she was an indigen of the community, she insisted that we followed her home and pass the night there, we didn’t even think twice before agreeing, while we were on our way I called my dad and started crying that I won’t be able cope and that we needed our own apartment outside the school and my dad agreed, the next day my brother and his wife came back, rented an apartment for us, and that was how we went back there and packed all our belongs to our new comfortable apartment never to return back to that jungle lodge.
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