Long story short, tipping as it is done in the US is an utterly ridiculous practice, and I say this as someone who cherishes the tipping culture in Nigeria.
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Or why I have 1800 Sephora points, and why I’ve finally decided to say no to things I want now to save for a future where I can afford everything I need.
In France, your friend is whom you went to school with.
In Brazil, your friend is whomever is welcome to go into your house when you’re not home, and raid your refrigerator.
As a Nigerian, who is a friend to you?
Goodbye 25! Hello 26! Holy shit, I’m actually an adult now. Today is my Baiday! Eeeya! Eeeya! O!
If my seventeen year old self could see me now, she’d be very surprised. This isn’t how I imagined being twenty-five would be at all. I really believed that by twenty-five I would be a full-fledged adult with my life thoroughly together, probably even married, and with a baby on the way.
Somehow that hasn’t happened yet, and in a few hours, I will be six years into my twenties without a fucking clue what I am doing or where I am going with my life.
It’s a big, scary world out there, and sometimes I want to run home with my tail tucked between my legs, back to the comfort of being a Nigerian young adult housed, fed, and supported entirely by long-suffering older family members
Part of me is convinced that I am a borderline bad person. Not the sort that would do anything particularly evil, but just fundamentally lacking in virtue.
And that stupid phone… In that stupid pose….. With that stupid look on her face… Wow eighteen year old self, really?
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Hello, I know this post is over ten years old, but I just read it and your rant post and I am awed. I completely […]
Growing up in my village school and seen how we were beaten for speaking igbo language to speck the igbo at old age
Yes it’s my dialect, but there is a very practical reason why I use it. Onicha Igbo is the most widely understood dialect due to historical
Is the Onicha Anambra dialect your dialect? If so that seems... a bit biased.
[…] I first learned to write Igbo in school, I have been infuriated with Samuel Ajayi Crowther,” she blogged in 2009. “The Roman system of writing was