I did mentioned in my last post that I was going to tell you the reason I went to church on the first of July and why I would again continue to go, at least before school resumes.
Right now, I’m really bored here in Yola. This gets worst on Saturdays and Sundays when the school library does not open and so I don’t go to school to read. You know it sucks when you don’t have anything to entertain you while you are alone in the hut in which you live and on stepping out of the room the faces you meet can’t interact with you because they are speak Hausa which for now, I still can’t understand clearly (really ashamed of this). But don’t think you too can’t be a victim of this if you can’t speak Fulani because this is the Indigenous Language of the people here. So, many a time, they miss up this language with Hausa which makes it more difficult for a learner of Hausa.
Of course you now see why, no matter what your level of paganism is, you would definitely oblige the invitation of a friend to church especially if you like social life like me. This was one of the reasons I went to church last week.
During the church service, I was ambivalent whether to come again in the following Sunday or manage the little boredom that characterizes my weekends at home. The preaching was full of trite stories heard from my pre-teenage days; irrational stories of old and how we must be godly to make heaven, how Abraham was faith to God and God said he would have the same number of children as the number of stars in the sky, etc. I however did love the music; the acoustic combination was really great. I loved the way I was welcomed (song, hand shake with almost every member of the church and an offer of a bottle of Soft drink after the service) and the manner in which every one welcomed the other. I latter learnt that this was a tradition and I did know at once that it was peculiar to that church alone. This is because in all the years in which I had been “church halorting” I never found this. I probably love the beautiful faces of the girls that sat around me (I'm sure this is a lie). You know what guys like now, just being in midst of gals that make you feel like you are the only real and great guy. Any way, enough of folk tales. I did promise to keep my post short. So, I would stop here now. In another post, I would introduce myself.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Why this Blog? and Why LΔ Concept?
Well, yesterday, I went to church for the first time in some months now. You might have known that I’m a pagan, by now. Well, if that’s not enough, you might just be satisfied that I’m an atheist. Well, let’s not go into religion now. Just that at times or probably, most times, I like to be in a gathering were people fellowship for the bond of the human love is greatest during these times. Secondly, I love dancing or put more frankly, I’m the most lover of dancing. Anyway, none of these was a reason for my going to church yesterday, however. It’s just that someone invited me and I came to think of it that I have become bored on Sundays, because I do not go to school again to read; the school having just gone to summer break last week. So, I thought also, that it was an opportunity for me to know a friend’s house (the invitee) for he just got packed to a new house.
Mean while, I haven’t told you why I have not been blogging for quite some time now (no, not some, a whole lot of time). It’s almost getting to 365 days now since I posted on my blog AAUN Life Experience blog: www. myaaun.blogspot.com. Also, I haven’t also tell you why I decide to start a new blog altogether. I will tell you these. But just in case I forget, you owe me the assurance not to fail to remind me.
If you ever read the aforementioned blog, you would know that it was a much of a trash. It was in a way to serve multiple purposes and not only giving you what AAUN is like in the inside. There you probably would notice certain things like creative writing piece of writing which I wrote, quotations from Albert Einstein , my mentor, ………………… and some other non sense.
One reason for these was to increase my typing speed. Another was to record my taught. Thirdly, it was to stimulate my writing spirit and make my voice appear to be heard. So, if you read things that didn’t make sense in that blog, know that it might have been engendered by the latter reason because I’m a kinetic learner. But one underlying fact is that I like blogging.
On why I haven’t been blogging all these while, well, it may suffice you to know that one reason was that I drop out of school. So I needed to face a serious battle that would see me back in school this fall, September. And the battle was so though that I gave-up most of my pleasure loving activity like blogging. So, this answers that question.
I guess the most curious question that is in your mind now is “Have you won the Battle, Now?”
Well, I’m confident to tell you that I have won 90% of the battle. And I am proud to tell you that the victory is actually one in two fold: the victory that I would be returning back to school this fall and the victory that I would leave again next summer. (err? Err..? what…?) Yes. Not Ironic and I’m not joking. I mean LEAVE AAUN again while I shall have completed only 3 semesters.
Before you call me a fool, let me quickly reveal what I mean. I would be transferring to great schools like Harvard and MIT (just hoping though). I have always wanted to school in a world class US styled university and that desire brought me to this school (AAUN). I had thought getting into Harvard or MIT for my undergraduate program isn’t again, following my not so excellent performance in secondary school when measured against a typical US Ivy bound student. But during the past six weeks I have been doing some research on the admission into Ivy league universities and I have found a very powerful concept that is driving me crazy daily: LΔ meaning Learning Delta. In fact, if you notice new drives in me, its cause is attributed to this concept, to the extent that I have this blog named in the it.
Also, I have now known that admission into these school is context driven. i.e. the selection process look at your environment as the backdrop to your accomplishment.
If I must reveal a secret here, it is that I am working really very hard to increase my learning delta because I MUST ATTEND MIT OR HARVARD. One thing I have got from my research is this: they want to know what make me thick.
As I hope to keep the posts on this blog as brief as possible, I would tell you –in another blog, something that happened in the church yesterday, which had made me resolve to become a regular, and probably addicted “church goer”. Mean while, also, know that the coming of this blog could not have been at a better time than this. Do you know why? Yesterday marks the beginning of the second half of the 2007 year, was the only day to have its month begin with a Sunday this year, and probably the only day to be a Sunday 1st July in this decade I think (except April 1st), probably also in this century (not so sure any way, but as a mathematician, I would think and make calculations if it is correct. But what if I can’t? Then, I would go researching because I am a fairly good researcher as well. These are things that make me thick. hoops!!!)
Mean while, I haven’t told you why I have not been blogging for quite some time now (no, not some, a whole lot of time). It’s almost getting to 365 days now since I posted on my blog AAUN Life Experience blog: www. myaaun.blogspot.com. Also, I haven’t also tell you why I decide to start a new blog altogether. I will tell you these. But just in case I forget, you owe me the assurance not to fail to remind me.
If you ever read the aforementioned blog, you would know that it was a much of a trash. It was in a way to serve multiple purposes and not only giving you what AAUN is like in the inside. There you probably would notice certain things like creative writing piece of writing which I wrote, quotations from Albert Einstein , my mentor, ………………… and some other non sense.
One reason for these was to increase my typing speed. Another was to record my taught. Thirdly, it was to stimulate my writing spirit and make my voice appear to be heard. So, if you read things that didn’t make sense in that blog, know that it might have been engendered by the latter reason because I’m a kinetic learner. But one underlying fact is that I like blogging.
On why I haven’t been blogging all these while, well, it may suffice you to know that one reason was that I drop out of school. So I needed to face a serious battle that would see me back in school this fall, September. And the battle was so though that I gave-up most of my pleasure loving activity like blogging. So, this answers that question.
I guess the most curious question that is in your mind now is “Have you won the Battle, Now?”
Well, I’m confident to tell you that I have won 90% of the battle. And I am proud to tell you that the victory is actually one in two fold: the victory that I would be returning back to school this fall and the victory that I would leave again next summer. (err? Err..? what…?) Yes. Not Ironic and I’m not joking. I mean LEAVE AAUN again while I shall have completed only 3 semesters.
Before you call me a fool, let me quickly reveal what I mean. I would be transferring to great schools like Harvard and MIT (just hoping though). I have always wanted to school in a world class US styled university and that desire brought me to this school (AAUN). I had thought getting into Harvard or MIT for my undergraduate program isn’t again, following my not so excellent performance in secondary school when measured against a typical US Ivy bound student. But during the past six weeks I have been doing some research on the admission into Ivy league universities and I have found a very powerful concept that is driving me crazy daily: LΔ meaning Learning Delta. In fact, if you notice new drives in me, its cause is attributed to this concept, to the extent that I have this blog named in the it.
Also, I have now known that admission into these school is context driven. i.e. the selection process look at your environment as the backdrop to your accomplishment.
If I must reveal a secret here, it is that I am working really very hard to increase my learning delta because I MUST ATTEND MIT OR HARVARD. One thing I have got from my research is this: they want to know what make me thick.
As I hope to keep the posts on this blog as brief as possible, I would tell you –in another blog, something that happened in the church yesterday, which had made me resolve to become a regular, and probably addicted “church goer”. Mean while, also, know that the coming of this blog could not have been at a better time than this. Do you know why? Yesterday marks the beginning of the second half of the 2007 year, was the only day to have its month begin with a Sunday this year, and probably the only day to be a Sunday 1st July in this decade I think (except April 1st), probably also in this century (not so sure any way, but as a mathematician, I would think and make calculations if it is correct. But what if I can’t? Then, I would go researching because I am a fairly good researcher as well. These are things that make me thick. hoops!!!)
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