Three weeks in Rivers state camp: the pains, the pleasures and the love affairs
My excitement as a corper 3 WEEKS IN RIVERS STATE CAMP: The pains, the pleasures and the love affairs. (A personal account) 16/08/2019 23:00pm Tick tick tick..the hands of the clock crawled. Boom! Boom! Boom! My heart panted. 17/08/2019 00:02 Finally! It's time to download my call up letter. Expectant+ excited+ joyful +sprinkles of fear= what I felt. Network and NEPA didn't disappoint. In seconds, I had my call up letter downloaded. My joy was the like the feeling you get when you eat the bottom pot of sweet jollof rice. I had always dreamt of serving in Cross River state. My heart was filled with thanksgiving to God. 'The God that answereth my NYSC posting...!' That very moment, the beautiful places I have read about came alive in my imaginations. The exotic and assorted foods I would eat there made my mouth watered. Didn't Uncle Aniefiong say that any Calabar lady can snatch the husbands of those who didn't know how to cook? Even mor