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MY CAMP SERIES: EPISODE 12 (NENRITMWA)

NENRITMWA

   I'd known Nenrit in school and for awhile we were just cordial. Our relationship went from small pleasantries to gisting and laughing after we got each others numbers, but nothing deep. 
Even Adam had the animals for company before Eve. This is saying, “you definitely need people at all points in your life”.
  In as much as we all make plans with our friends to be together forever, some situations cannot be helped. 
I met a twin who was separated from her other twin for the first time ever because of NYSC. They were posted to places very far from each other and after crying and wishing it'd have been the other way, they both survived camp. 
I have a couple of close friends I talk to all the time, I have my sisters too, basically enough people that I even thought I didn't necessarily need to connect with anybody or meet new people who would keep me company. The fact that I was leaving for camp at one of the craziest points in my life last year cemented my resolve to not mingle too much.
I got to camp on the 26th of November, 2023 and network was really bad. In fact, network on my main line disappeared completely from the moment I got to Kebbi State, until I arrived back in Niger State on the 14th of December. I kept hoping it'd come back, but after the first two days, I gave up. The only people who had almost steady networks were the MTN users and I had and will keep adamantly declining the advice to register an MTN line. 
   Due to the stress from the hurry and the confusion before camp, my head was all over the place and my emotions were 100 metres in front of my body. I wonder how the NYSC body decided that corpers had to be in camp just 2 or 3 days after being deployed. Like I said, I left for camp in one of the worst states of mind; a lot of things were going on that I almost didn't make it to camp after I'd registered. 
Somehow, after the NYSC deployment board had been so cruel to post me to Zamfara state, lady luck decided to hand me some and that's how I camped in Kebbi State alongside 6 of my classmates from the university. 
This post is about my angel girl; NENRITMWA.
I'd known Nenrit in school, for awhile we were just cordial, then our relations went from small pleasantries to gisting and laughing after we got each others numbers, but nothing deep. 
We realised from our class group chat that there were about 6 of us going to camp in the same state so we made arrangements to travel together. 
In camp, myself and Nenrit connected deeper than I expected, I realised that we had a handful of shared values and some of the things I thought I knew about her were in fact wrong; Nen is such an angel, I used to think she was a really tough cookie because of all the positions she occupied in school and how well she shouldered them. How then did I turn to mother hen looking out for Nen? I've never said this, but I miss camp and only because of the evenings Nen and I would walk together to maami to eat and gist.
   One crucial lesson about life is not to make conclusions about people based on how you perceive them from the surface. Regardless, I love the puzzle of unraveling people's real identities as you go, it adds colour to life and relationships especially if you'd been wrong about them.
Attending OBS meetings together, sharing secrets and hyping each other up moved our surface level relationship to this beautiful sisterhood that it is now. We're in a permanent reel-a-tionship now too 😂
I couldn't do a camp series and not include one of the best parts. 

Photo: Nenrit and I one hot afternoon after OBS meeting


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