So this happens to be my first blog, and I just thought this might be a useful thing to do. For the records, I will be writing in very simple English since one of my instructors this past semester just reminded me that I am an African so she understands why I don't write very good English; on a good day I will pause to think or feel bad over it but then i thought of it like this...I am Nigerian, I speak and read my native language Igbo fluently so suck it up woman and allow yourself the chance to meet someone different than you are.
About this blog, I intend to keep it short and straight to the point, i really do not understand how blogs work but i am sitting at home, too lazy to go work out, too lazy to do my laundry and too lazy to read any of my John Grisham books i just got from the library. You must know that this is not just a "lazy day" thing. It's how I have been living since school closed about 2 weeks ago. I have my summer to myself, the plan is to work and work and make money that I will spend traveling somewhere to a warmer place in December when the winter in Grand Forks forces one to ask for forgiveness of sins as you might think the winter is God's own punishment for thy sins.
Okay, so a few things about myself, I love myself and my family very much, I literally at the age of 25 still think it's absolutely necessary to involve my immediate family in everything I do. Words cannot express how much I value my family, we are so far from being perfect, I guess somewhere in our imperfection we found a common ground and that has helped us pull through tough times together. I currently live with my extended family; uncle, wife and 4 adorable kids. I have my own space considering it's a big house and i pay no bills :) I literally live for free and only pay my car insurance and phone bills monthly. I consider me as being blessed to have these wonderful people around me.
I go to school full time and used to work full time then I was forced to change jobs so my school does not suffer. I have been taught growing up that school is the ultimate I know for sure the likes of Bill Gates will beg to differ on that. Then I ask myself, why I am in school? why am I incurring all this student loans in the name of a better future? My course of study right now is in the health care field and I need not mention it because it should be easy for any one to figure it out. It's being praised as a job that offers security, is flexible, pays well depending on your state and most of all provides you with satisfaction and so on and of course neglecting or down playing the fact that there is also high burn out rates, no wonder thousands of them are produced on a yearly basis.
After 4 paragraphs and I haven't said anything meaningful, it should not be hard to figure that if you meet me in person you will know I talk a lot. Just had an epiphany while keeping up with the Kardashians and downing almost 2 cups of pistachios and yoghurt (fat free of course) that I can do something better. I kind of had one of those moments my favourite character John Dorian from the series Scrubs usually has except for this time, I was actually being useful to myself and people around me. then I thought of this, I have an active Facebook account, an inactive twitter account and yahoo messenger account, I have a cell phone with unlimited data plan and I still cannot do the one thing I love doing very well; connecting with people.
I need not raise the argument over technology and it's impacts on our life, I suppose it will be one of those arguments that will never end just like the Behaviourist's argument on what shapes or has the most impact on our behaviour...is it our genes or the environment? or like the Philosophers argue over the separation or unification of the mind and body. But just sitting on that couch I realized I need to connect with people, using the positive sides of technology and how it makes communication easy, I sent messages to some friends to see who wants to go swim later tonight out of guilt after putting on 15 pounds in 3 months (or better still was trying to see who is equally as bored as I am) just one person got back to me and we agreed to meet at 7:30 to swim.
But, that's not enough, so i decided to make a video on YouTube and post it to see how people will respond but "lol" I don't know how well to work my Droid to produce a nice clean video to upload since my dear Dell Inspirion 6400 laptop has no inbuilt webcam :(. Then, making myself a smoothie (sugar free of course) I realized I can try to write. I passionately hate writing no thanks to writing so many essays as a nursing student, you begin to wonder What-The-Forest do these instructors need all these essays for? but yes, that seemed the only option left...blog, blog, and blog more. So I reluctantly created a blogging account and thus has decided to become a blogger :)
