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Holidays are always fun and we always look forward to how we would spend them. As a student, I know how exciting it is for schools to go on holiday for some time. As an employee, there is that great enthusiasm in them, knowing how the holidays would go, especially with families and friends.
Some holidays are good and bad, and I believe we all have had a taste in both. I have had my taste several times with both and I just didn't have a choice with the bad ones. Things are bound to happen unexpectedly and we can't predict the circumstances.
Let me cite some scenarios for us, before moving to my best and most bitter holidays so far.
Where I live, it feels so uncomfortable for me, especially having to wake up early to find water and not an easy one at that, you will have to draw from the well. It's always tedious for me but I don't have a choice.
Another is the electricity issue here. Out of 24 hours in a day, we only have light for 6 hours (4 hours during the day, and 2 hours at night) and many times, we only have it for two hours, or none at all. It's freaking a bad moment here for me.
Though I still enjoy, but not as having a place where water would always run in your home and you don't have to go look for water and also, constant electricity. Even if they would take it, they will bring it immediately.
(These are some photo collections while in my hometown with Grandma)
Imagine going through those challenges, but you have a place where you don't even need to look for water, because it is running in every room. Just get up, move to the bathroom or kitchen, and switch on the tap, and you get what you want.
A home where there are younger ones around, and being the eldest, you don't have to do much. I get to delegate tasks to everyone in my hometown while I only engage in little things.
Many times, my siblings would even tell me not to worry because they did everything already. Hehehe, how sweet it is in my grandma's place.
The last time I went to spend some weeks after finishing my last paper and project, I decided to go spend and relax, and free myself from sleepless nights of reading and celebrate the achievement.
To say the best, I enjoyed my stay. I already planned to spend a month but it got extended because I just couldn't leave with the enjoyment I had.
Electricity in the village is of the best. I used to say that if someone would come open a business in my village, light is never a problem because they will so much enjoy the constant light.
In my village, everyone has the contact of the Nepa office. If there is no light for a minute, they will put a call through and boom, light has been restored. There was a free flow of network service and for the time spent there, I never regretted it.
I told myself that day “if I had known, I wouldn't have told her I would be visiting”.
Staying in the village was fun, but the mistake I did was informing my Aunt (Dad's younger sister) that I would be coming over to spend some weeks with her. I never knew that was the month she would be packing things as she was preparing to relocate.
When I got there, I knew what I went through. I wasn't even allowed to breathe, except at night when I wanted to sleep. The circle continues the next day. It affected my engagement online, and when I saw I couldn't take it anymore, I came up with a plan to leave in the next three days.
I told my friend to call me as I would flash her when I was with my Aunt. She called and told me an exam we were to write would commence in some days. I made my Aunt see me while talking to her and immediately, I told her I would be having an exam in some days and I need to go on time to read and prepare.
That was how I left her place. For some days when I arrived at my place, I knew what I went through with how she killed me with work upon work. 😄😄😄
Thanks for your time.
