Reminiscence! Reminiscence !! Reminiscence !!! Memories of my orientation camp
Recently, a friend of mine told me his young brother is going for service and it got me thinking all about orientation camp, my service year, and NYSC all over again. Seriously, I actually miss some people I met at the Orientation camp. So as I started thinking about the advice to give my friends brother, memories just flood my brain and i start remembering. I remembered collecting my call up letter and my neighbours calling me otondo and me boarding a bus at Jibowu on thate fateful monday morning, July 4th, 2011 to Kaima orientation camp and sitting down in the bus for 8 hours before they dropped us at Kaiama camp. I remembered meeting my first NYSC friend in the vehicle as we were not the only otondos in the bus but it is just two of us posted to bayelsa state. I remembered how sellers bombarded us immediately we droped from the bus with mosquito nets, bucket, food flask, cup, bowls . . . I remembered as I got to the camp and was shocked to find a lot of peop