Hello Everyone, welcome to the first episode of my diary... Amma's diary.
Introduction: Amma's diary is all about my personal life experiences, day to day activities; trilling, adventurous and happy moments of Amaka Nwachukwu.
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EPISODE 1
–POST-NYSC EXPERIENCE
After a year’s nation call (NYSC)
and dedicated service of having served my father land; Nigeria, it was a
bitter-sweet experience to be back home to my family. After all, family over
everything. I just dey feel myself as per, expired corp member who must have
been missed in the home after a year of service in one strange village in Oyo
State, Nigeria. It was sweet in the sense that the trauma of seeing my Yoruba
students with over 15 tribal marks on one face; diagonally, vertically,
horizontally and diaverthorizon was over! The thoughts of going to the market
once a week and eating stale food that will be on heat minimum 2 times a day X
7 days was also over… Omo, ko easy o! Worse of all, the annoying sound of my
name from the mouth of indigenes in that village! It was so bad that I had to
doubt the meaning of my name which I had borne for over 20 years before then.
Some called me Emehka. Others, Amake and the rest Emeke or “omo ibo”. Kai! These Yoruba fellas can make someone
regret his name o! What is difficult in pronouncing “Amaka”. Shebi if I had
told them my full is Uzoamaka, perhaps, they would pronounce it as what?
Ozeomohka. Smh!
Now, to the other part. I know it is like a home-sweet tradition for a long missed fellow to be celebrated on her return. Mum giving me options for meal, boiling water for me to have my bath, younger ones all around me to run errands for “free”, folks calling for morning and night prayers and thanking God for me, everyone remembering one past incident which happened in my absence and telling me the stories. Well, it is normal to feel comfortable but I bet you, that wouldn’t last for a long time so I told myself; “Ama baby! Don’t feel too comfy with this o, once another long missed fellow comes after your return, you will be treated as normal just as the word “normal” sounds”.