Time for the long awaited service for the induction of Very Reverend Timothy. Amaudo took a vehicle and the Helping Hands bus to show our best support.
The service was good, we were in a cathedral and it was completely filled up with friends and well wishers. It was a normal service with a section for the induction, presentation of new cloth for him and blessings. Then he and his wife sat at the front and people came up and gave him gifts of money and pledges of money to congratulate him. When a person goes to the offering bole then they are given a calendar to keep in their house and remember the day. I know that my parents sent our gift through a bank transfer so did not feel the need to go and announce it because he knew and I knew so weather people know or not then it doesn’t matter. I sat and let everyone else fight for calendars. I was sitting next to Benson. He asked me if I would like to follow him to Abuja for a few days on business. I was not really sure what I will do there but I suppose it could be interesting.
My friend Rev Peter was doing the MC-ing for the event. He is a very funny reverend and I like him a lot. He asked why I did not announce my gift and if I meant I was a nun. I have been asked if I am a nun a couple of times. I guess nuns must be common over here. Being a white in traditional dress got a lot of attention, people where really pleased that I was ‘trying’ (at being a Nigerian I suppose). A lot of people noticed my chief beads and said oh baby are you a chief? And I would say yes. I was made chief on the 11th of May in Igbrerre last week as a matter of fact.
We came back in the afternoon and I decided to loose my attachments. It was big work and my hair underneath was spoilt and awful looking. I showered then sat with Eunice chatting until we went to dining. I am getting bored of rice with stew so we came back pretty quick. After Eunice went to give drugs Ansylem came to chat to me. He is an ex resident and fully stable. He has been to university to study accountancy so is intelligent and witty. We lay on our backs enjoying the concrete bench with our heads together sometimes lying on our fronts like we were having a girly sleep over. He was discharged from Amaudo in 2004, his twin brother came to the ceremony and gave Amaudo 22,000N and goat to eat. He is a big man and lives in Lagos and Port Harcourt. His mother is late but his father is still alive. He married a second wife who has born one child who Anasylem and his brother sponsor. The wife is not very nice to the children of the first wife. We chatted until the rain desturbed us and he left me to go to bed. I then called my home and spoke to each family member one by one.
Coming into my room I noticed the blind was open and torn. I did not have any light in my room because there was no fuel for the generator and I still don’t know how to on lantern. I ran to security and met Kelechi on the way. I showed him where my house had been entered and he helped my search if anyone was hiding. I then got security so I could have more light and went to wake up Eunice to find out where that ex resident was who had been hanging about all day. She had been sitting outside helping me loose my hair and then did her own so I hoped she would have noticed if someone had come whilst we were at dining. I didn’t notice anything funny before dining and I spent sometime wondering about my room getting changed so I was pretty sure that the burgerler came whilst I was at dining. They stole my lap top but left the charger behind even though it had been sitting on top of it. Then they stole my brand new I Pod classic (80 gig) but left all of the wires, head phones and speakers behind. We reported to co-ordinator and he came to see. Then Eunice made me a cup of tea and I sat with her and Kelechi. House Parents have to get up at 5 to take their baths and get up so that they can get their residents up and bathed at 6 and give them their drugs. I felt bad keeping them up, so after taking tea I was happy and told them to go and sleep. Eunice went but Kelechi stayed worrying about me. I said I was fine but he kept worrying if I would be scared and how someone could do this to me and why did it happen? He prayed and prayed and pleaded to God for the thief to be found. I told him to calm down and that I was already settled and quite ready to go to bed so he shouldn’t keep me up.
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