Veintidós!

My Spanish is getting a lot better. I keep throwing the little Spanish I know around. I should warn you that it's not going to get any better. As my Spanish improves, I'm going to write a lot more in Spanish and who knows, maybe one day, I'll have a whole post in Spanish.

The Battle

Creative Corner

True Talk

Let's start off from where I stopped yesterday.
Little brother, if you like get annoyed that I am calling you little brother, shake your head, twist your face, yen yen yen, you're still my little brother. Brother, I am so proud of you and it's such a beautiful thing watching you grow. I'm emotional because it was only yesterday you started school and now you're in uni. I'm proud of you. I'm very proud of you. I love you. (you better tell me back).

Yesterday, we were talking about taking walks. I'm proud to say that the walks I took today were the walks to and from class. I am not even ashamed, especially since I was seriously considering not going to class. See eh, it be like that some days.
Tomorrow is the last day in Surgery cycle and God knows that I am looking forward to the end of it. I am tired. Today, my teacher was asking questions and the whole group was just looking at him like 😧😑. He said, 'you stopped reading too early'. Please dear, just leave me, brain dey pain person.

And just in case, my dad decides to stop by my blog today, daddy, all of this is a joke. I am actually studying really hard. Those things you read before, that's just how we students communicate these days about our profound love for education and educational institutions.

I did create something today. I am tempted to call it something small. I almost always want to minimize the things I do. I think that it is a form of self-defense. I am always nervous that people will not think that I am good enough or that my work is 'all that'. So, I feel like if I minimize myself enough, maybe they'll see good or maybe they'll see it as not so good. Whatever they see, maybe it wouldn't hurt as much.

Here's what I did...

I'm homesick. I can hear my mom's voice in my head 'you're not sick in Jesus' name' 😩 I have been homesick for a while but in recent days, it seems to be growing in intensity. It's all fun and games and life too when you spend 2+ years away from family till it begins to dawn on you that you're growing up and so is everyone.

I'm yet to become a mother but I think that there's a switch that goes off when one has a child. It happens irrespective of your gender, your heart just goes all out for a little human and you can't wait to take care of them and watch them grow.

As a child, on the other hand, I never really saw parents as people to be loved. They were to be respected, obeyed, relied on but really not to be loved.
At least, I had a soft spot for my mom but my dad, ahhh, he's a "hard man".

You know those tweets and meme say that your parents reply with God bless you when you say to them that you love them or they find a way around the discussion. You know how they rarely say 'I love you', they'd rather say 'Have you eaten?'



In my own case, it's more like the opposite. My parents especially my dad would say 'I love you' and although I wouldn't reply with God bless you, it would be so awkward for me that I'll either find a way out out of the conversation or just keep quiet.

I am learning to love my father. I am learning to tell him that I love him. I am learning that he's a person that I should indeed love. I chose to write about him on my blog because I know he'll read it not because I need him to send me extra cash (daddy you can still send me extra, I am always open to that 😂).

I don't know what the relationship is like between you and your dad but learn to love him, in whatever way that may be for you. Whether it means that you call him just to check up on him, send him a message that you're thinking of him,  be there with him or maybe some other way.

Respect him, rely on him, love him.

Grace and Peace
Kaydo ❤

Hi there!
Yay it's Monday. Well I can still be excited about Mondays because I'm still on holiday.
The time off from school has offered me so much time to myself. I've time to sleeeeeeep zzzz's because sleep is one thing that is hard to come by once the session begins. So, I've given myself to more sleep. It's just been a little annoying when I wake up early on the days that I just want to sleep in. Anyways, it's been really relaxing.

My darling roommate traveled for the holiday so I've had the room to myself. Haha! I'm a very personal person (dunno if that makes sense). I'm quite a private person and that's one of the reasons why I tend to work more at night but since I've been alone most of the time, I've spent quality time during the day doing 'stuff' that I'll usually do at night.

I've been a 'one-man gang' for quite a while and having time to yourself is so great a blessing to a loner BUT there are times when you kinda want to be around people. For me I've got amazing friends around but there are some times when the only people you want to hang around is family. I'm in Ukraine but my family is Nigeria and sometimes I wish that my superpower, teleporting was actually real.


Growing up, I wasn't really such a family person. I loved my parents, siblings and cousins but I found it quite difficult to connect with them. I'm currently in a place where I understand that family is everything. Friends come and go but family is always going to be by your side no matter what. I know it's that it's not always the case but most of the time, family will always have your back when there's no other person there.

Many times, we take for granted this gift of family that we have been given especially when we live in a very loving home, where members of your family are nice and have your best interest at heart. We forget that some people do not really get to enjoy the gift of family like we can.

CHALLENGE: Take out time to consciously appreciate your family.