LIFE IN UNILAG ( EPISODE 2)

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That fateful night I was in the library. I was half-frustrated and still trying to decipher Calculus.
Why can't I just get this concept? Why didn't I just take further maths back in Secondary school? Why is Calculus now Turning up in almost all my courses? Especially physics, is this a set up or what? All these questions and many more kept racing at the centre of my mind as I frowned at the family-biscuit-sized textbook at my front Titled 'Calculus' under the sleep-inducing A.C of Unilag's main library. Mind you, there are a lot of textbooks like that in the library that can't help you unless you're in year two, three or in your finals.
Oh my gp! Who is this one again? I asked.
Brought out my phone and stared into the screen like a blind bat.
Arhh, its Shola. The girl I met last three nights. Why is she calling me nah! OooO why now when I'm in the middle of the calculus sea?
.... .....Egbfsvstgv....ewhvdhy..hetgvsbnsu. I CLEARED MY THROAT.
And in my lowest and most romantic tone ever; -you sure don't want the librarian to hear you-
I said;
Hello who I'm I talking to? (pretending as if I dnt know She's the one on the line)
Jay, I'm sure you have a fish brain. She said
( then I looked at all the scattered books in my front, well maybe its true. Maybe that's why I didn't get this Calculus)
Hello! Shola so its you? How are you nw? How was your day? How is your night? Did you go for any lecture today? What was it like? Are you good for now? Can we talk later? Can you hang up?
I asked all these questions and was still planning to add more like -Can you keep your phone in your pocket? Can you disappear from this planet for now? And all that.
Then I heard a sweet tone:
Jay you sure do have a fish brain. Can we talk? Can we see tonight?
Sure but not now. I said. Smiling at my table until I caught sight of the Calculus textbook and my mood changed.
I'll call you when I'm in new hall. I said just before the line dropped.
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Soon the book was beginning to bore me.
I checked my watch. Time was 8:17pm. I usually leave the library by 8:30 but that night 8:30 seemed to have been caught up in a deadly traffic congestion and I def can't wait for it to come. You know what I mean.
..... ..... ..... ........ ...I left the library and was heading towards new hall. No shuttle, so I walked. Thanks to relativity I was even faster than any campus shuttle.
....Hmm ... New hall and its craze.....
There was this rap battle that was going on. I felt like waiting to feel the vibe yes The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. So I just picked a punchline that was like ;
You've been squat ting in Sodeinde for Six years now, nigga get a life or better still get a bed space.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahah. What a mean fellow! ....Tsk tsk.
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{ Hello I'm at the front of your hall. Come downstairs. }
...Within few minutes I saw Shola coming towards me, perhaps today is christmas I thought. Or her birthday. Coz She was wearing a nice 'piece' of cloth, yeah nice -piece- coz I'm sure it was in no way quantity-enough to be called a cloth. Something more like a patch patch attire.
Hi! Since!! { She waved and when she got near we then shook hands. }
I was in the library, what's up. I said.
I'm good. So that means you've not eaten tonight? She asked.
Yeah. I don't really...ehm. (She cuts in)
Shut up. I cooked rice. Do you care for some? {She said. And continued} I can get you some.
Oh that's good. Thanks. -We walked towards her hall- She went upstairs and within five minutes she was back.
... We sat somewhere around the flowers at the front of her hall gisting. I was eating and laughing. ...{I finished eating sooner than she expected tho.} We continued talking for like 30minutes. Talking about everything that passed.
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.... .... ...It was time to go to my hall. And She wanted to see me off. Hmm. I should have objected but instead I fell for the trap.
As we left her hall. We starting walking in that 1meter per day speed. Taking our time to gist about everything that's in sight.
...Hmm. There is this popular Yoruba adage. 'One doesn't go to the house of an elderly person without taking things like money or gifts along'
Unilag.
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Soon we walked pass the first suya man.
Then another, and another. And then another. We were still talking. Trying to ignore the fact that Unilag's Suya is the best in west africa.
All of a sudden, I heard a lady's voice {screaming Shola}.
It was one Shola-like figure. Like 3meters away. Standing beside a Chicken and chips seller. Choi!!! I smell trouble...
{We walked in that trouble-promising direction.}
...Hiiiii Shola where to?
Heyyy. Jenny meet my new friend {she said and continued} I'm seeing him off to his hall.
.. Hello I'm Jay {shook hands with her}
Jenny smiled and then said.. Uhhm. Will you guys wait for me to get my chicken n chips so we can all go together.
Immediately I knew this must be a big set-up.
Choi!!!... I get to eat a nice plate of rice at the expense of paying for these ladies s' chicken n chips.
Urhbshzshv:j..hdhhuabHdxb. I CLEARED my already blocked throat.
Wait for you ? Ooops sorry I have to open the room for my roommates. I keep the key. {I said. Showing off the key in my hand. Hmm Sharp guy I thought until she smiled back and said } well you don't have to wait. Pay the guy and let's Go. We'll get it when we're coming back.
I brought my wallet out. Stretched out a thousand naira note towards the guy with that Mallam-you-fall-my-hand-look.
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We left for my hall gisting And laughing out loud (even tho I was faking mine)
What a night! Well I tell you it was worth it.
I and Shola became close friends and I ate a lot of nice plates of rice after that one. Well As a Sharp guy I always leave her hall late to avoid those chicken n chips sellers.
to be continued...
Episode 3 Biobaku Saga 'My experience in Biobaku hall'
Coming soon.
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