Greetings all the members of the weekend Experiences community.
This is the weekend, and every weekend, I always try my best to share how my weekend went with you all. Every weekend is worth it because that's when some people have time to visit some places, and also get to learn from their experiences.
Believe me, there's no weekend I don't learn and experience new things. So this weekend is not an exception.
On Wednesday, I dropped a post in the Wednesday Walk community. And I stated clearly where I visited, and I also said I would visit that same place this weekend.
I visited a place I've always planned to visit on the weekend. It was fun over there, I met different people, from different local governments and different communities.
I interacted with them, and the feedback I got was so amazing.
Guess where I went. This weekend, I visited my community market. I'm a native of Ituk Mbang Atai clan in Uruan local government area, here in Akwa Ibom state.
This happens to be my community market. When I was much younger, this market was very small in size.
It barely contains fifty people. Sometimes, I wonder why people are not making an effort to expand the market and those buildings within the market environment.
So this weekend, I decided to visit my village market again after a long period of time. Guess what I saw, what was in my mind was done.
I turned around, and I was so speechless. The market was expanded and renovated. Everywhere looked so beautiful.
I decided to go around to know how many marketers were from my community. But I discovered that half of the marketers were from other communities, and I said Wow!.
I didn't stop there. I visited a place where fish were sold. In my local government, we have a big river at Issiet Ekim, and that is where we get all our fish from.
So when I approached where the fish and stockfish were sold, I took a photo of the fish.
We call the fish oniok in the Ibibio language, spoken in Akwa Ibom State. The fish was arranged in a roll, and others were attached to a stick. They were also arranged.
After leaving there, I went to a place where okros and pepper were sold. You needed to see how fresh those okros and peppers looked.
I admired them so much. I asked her how long she's been doing the business, and she said, It's over fifteen years.
I was shocked. She was really making sales while I was still there. I took a photo of those okras and peppers.
So when I left there, I went to where a woman was selling crayfish. Some were tied in a white water bluff, while some were kept on the table.
I also discovered she's been doing the business for so many years as well. I was convinced that indeed, we still have women who do not depend on their husbands for survival, but rather, they engage themselves in profitable Businesses.
Thank you all.
