Can we proceed like I did not dissappear? LOL. I’m SORRY Blogfam!!!
Anyway sha, I have gist….I recently had some training at work and it was very long, boring and tiring. Some people don dey doze, their head just dey nod dey catch fish. Me, I kuku have short attention span so my mind had already traveled sef to the wedding list I was writing the night before…and then for some odd reason my mind went straight to the ogbono/okro soup I abandoned in the fridge because I was running late…should I eat it with eba? abi amala when I get home? tough decisions…
The trainer must have noticed that everyone had switched off, naim she say, oya make we play buzz games to refresh our brains. I don’t mind playing games, I love games! Before I could think of games I liked she just call my name… ” Sophie, do you want to have the first go at hangman?” She’s probably given up on calling me by my 9ja name, she don destroy my name sotay she fell back on my English name…well I no vex. Hangman ke? ewo tu ni yen? I looked at her with my bb confused face and kindly explained I was not familiar with that game…she took her time to explain that it was a word game where you had to guess the right letters in a word, for every wrong letter, you draw a man and hang him.
How violent!
The next game came on and she face me again, “its only fair I let you have a go at this one since you didn’t participate in the first game”…I look the oyinbo game, abeg I don’t know this one too oh. “Is this not racism?”, I asked myself? Why is she picking on me???? lol I kon use my waffi brain to tell her make she ‘remind me ‘ of the game because I forget how to play am. Even as she dey jog the non-existent memory i know say she know say I dey lie. I formed ogboju, went to the board and disgraced Nigeria there. *covers face* I for just talk true oh….
The pesin that nominated me for the 3rd game sef was one over-sabi-house-wife babe like that. I had to confess that all the games dem don dey play since morrin I nor know anyone inside. Shuo! Naim one shout, “what kind of childhood did you have Sophie?!!”, everyone was looking at me like I just crawled out of a ‘Save Africa’ campaign! I had a Nigerian childhood jor, where I played “suwe”… “ten-ten”… “catcher”… “vimo”… “gamebuzz abi box”… “police and thief”…tinko-tinko
After the training one of the babes kon corner me, ” how come you didn’t know those games? she was looking at me with concern. I kon tell am say..
“In Africa * cough cough* we played games like “amazon”, where we jumped on the tails of elephants to ride them, we also had another game called “ba-bo” where we played ball with ostrich eggs”
“she was like, “i’m jealous! I want to go to Africa, where did you find these animals?!”..
with mischief in my eyes, I told her, “we had these animals in in our backyard”…
I had to shurrup as one 9ja guy was approaching…