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Category: Blog
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(FES x.3)To Shop is to Walmart, Kudos to Iya Eleko
“Dear Eunice – If you could please return to Moffitt Health Center at your earliest convenience. You will need to ask for … when you go back. Regards,” I stared at the email in befuddlement. One of the things you need to sort out before enrollment is your medical clearance. We had been told to…
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(Un)sullied.
The air was midway between warm and cold as if it was not sure which to embrace. The night creatures had started their call and response routines. It was her responsibility these days to round up her five brothers from the playground, neighbor’s house, market square, mango clusters, stream or wherever else their mischief had…
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(FES x.2) Don’t Step Out; Ghostly Corridors Await
During housejob and NYSC days, I lived with an amazing set of neighbors. They were truly divinely-sent. There was IbiBaby whose room became my second room, whose delicacies warmed my belly countless times, whose hard work and diligence made it a honor to be referred to as her twin at work and who would sit…
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Kidnapping: Stockholm Sade.
As if it mattered if they died or lived. Nobody knew where they were or what was happening. Unlike previous kidnappings where the relatives and loved ones were “carried along” right from the start, this gang of wannabes were intent on prolonging the suspense of the evil they had done. They were quite enthusiastic about…
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(FES x.1) The Land is Green, the Cafeteria is the Green House
You see in this abroad, we are all being cooked. The concept of Greenhouses is to provide an environment that is constantly heated up to encourage the growth of plants within the houses. Awesome! They are cooking the plants. Do not argue with me. Thus, when you are within the typical abroad system, you may…
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Multiple Job Rejections? You Need You Some Crazy.
My brother says not to fall into that trap. “They make you believe that all you are worth is just that. A uniform, long hours and aching feet from normally comfortable shoes that have given their default setting the middle finger and resorted to inflict the worst pain on you for subjecting them to the…
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Let’s Try This Again: The Comeback
It feels strange to be back here. I wonder what the spiders and roaches were up to while I was away. I am not sure if I even locked the doors and went away with the keys or if I left them wide open for whoever to trespass. In case you read anything that did…
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Social Aspects of Acculturation in These United States: COVID-19 Episode.
My routine back in Abeokuta was simple and rarely divergent. During week days, I focused on going to work during my shifts, recovering from the shifts, preparing for the next shifts and ensuring I eat. My active weekday social life was mostly zero. The most of my social life was lived through social media and…
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3 Moons & a Thousand Nostalgias: EuKnighTed.
Until She suggested that we both write, from our different angles, how we’ve survived these past months of, er, intercontinental dating, I probably hadn’t taken time to view the subject in such a summary sense. I nodded outside and sighed within. I scanned the varied experiences of the past 12 weeks plus, plus the adjustments…
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Love, LDR and Love Languages: EuKnighTed.
This is the first part of a discussion on the alterations that come into love expressions in relationships on account of distance.