Hi you guyssss!
First off, I’m going to apologise πͺ. I’m really sorry I haven’t posted in ages (just two weeks but it still feels like ages), this isn’t really me, I promise. I’m just getting accustomed to being back at home and without constant light (I miss school with this πͺ). So let me get you guys up to speed with my life.
I finished my final exams like two weeks ago so basically you can call me a graduate π. I’m practically done with my project but apparently not quite cos it’s not up to 50 pages so I’m probably going to go off topic and then eventually come back to the topic cos I honestly don’t know what to write again π€·. I’ve been home a week, it feels good to be jobless and at the same time, not so good, there’s a lot of mixed feelings there I don’t want to explore πͺ. I hope you guys forgive me, thank you π.
So back to this post, yesterday, they refused to give us light like throughout and my battery was on 7% so I was just like instead of me to die of boredom and probably sleep, if just follow my mum to the market, it’d been a while, I’d just enjoy the experience. There are just 5 things I want to note about another Eko experience right here.
1. Eko market is so hard to navigate, my God π. I’ve been there like 10 times but if I go there on my own, by God, I’m definitely going to misplace. I just had to keep pace with my mum because if I’d mistakenly lost her, ooh la la, I was going to become a road side beggar because she was with my purse and phone.

2. If you’re small like I am and you mistakenly have my body shape, there’s legit no future in clothes for us here in Nigeria, I’m serious. I searched and searched for something I liked and actually fit me but it was nowhere to be found? Is it so hard for people to actually get sizes 4 and 6? Not all Nigerian females are big now πͺ. Anyway, I eventually found one and how much was it? 5,500 naira. For one dress. In Eko market. Random stall, not a shop or a boutique. I was amazed. So if I wanted to buy two dresses, 11k gone just like that, this life is hard. People please, if you see a girl wearing a very nice dress, please appreciate her and the dress cos those things don’t come cheap at all.
3. Please make sure you eat before you go to the market. Fo’real, you guys. You’d either die of exhaustion or hunger if you don’t. Thing is, I ate before I went but I slept as well and I have this thing that whenever I sleep after eating, I wake up hungry. My brain didn’t fully boot that I was going to be hungry until I got to the market. And you guys know how the market is, they’re always selling food especially that African salad. It got to a point that everything was looking appetising to me, even raw grinded pepper, I kid you not πͺ. I could have bought something to eat but my mum went all ‘There’s food at home’ and she’d spent the only large currency I had in my purse πͺ so I had to manage myself.

When I thought I was going to either faint or die from the strong hunger, my mum’s customer looked at me and bought me a drink, Bigi Tropical (I just realised it’s my 3rd one this week, wawuu, diabetes) so yes this is a testimony that God answers prayers π.
4. Ladies, when you want to get married, please don’t bring your husbands to the market. You ask why? My mum wanted to buy george for herself (if you’d read my introduction, this wouldn’t be new to you) and so we were at this shop. There was this couple there and they were selecting the george for the bride, traditional wedding. As she was picking the beautiful expensive ones, the guy was just shutting her down and down and down.
What happened? It’s her wedding, let her shine now. He didn’t oh, I guess cos he was paying for it and he was Igbo again (no offence to Igbo people out there π
, this is your stereotype). At the end of the day, they settled for one 20k george when she actually wanted a 40k own, pssh. So ladies, please don’t, I repeat, don’t bring your husbands to the market to shop for wedding things, your mum is a better option, thanks.

5. Everything in this country can be priced tbh, everything. Never, I repeat, never buy anything at the price they sell it to you unless it’s something small or you’re really desperate. My mum and I went to buy padlock and we saw a pretty one (yes, it was pretty π), guy said 1500, said he couldn’t go any lower ever, the padlock was too good yen yen yen, my mum said 1k and that’s the price we bought it. With all his mouth. Tsk tsk. For him to even accept that 1k, it means that the padlock is even cheaper than that. So as from now, I’m pricing everything, you guys, everything, because even those that seem well intentioned like that guy are probably still cheating you π€·.
At the end of the walking about and looking for things for me, I eventually left Eko market with just 100 naira lipgloss. That’s legit all I got for myself, at least I like lip gloss, I should be a lip gloss model, heh. Well, I got home and there wasn’t and had been no light so I guess I didn’t really lose, in a way, I guess, I don’t know, I’m confused π.
Okay, bye you guys, I’ll see you in my next blog post which I promise will be next week π.