THE SPECS OF BEING A CORPER

Apart from people shouting wee and expecting us to answer back like mad dogs, I believe there are more to being a corper.

 I obviously will write from a personal view, if you feel you have better ideas share em.

1. The preparation for camp: The hype behind preparation for camp would make you wonder, everyone seems to have an idea of what camp would be like, don’t wear this, carry this, and carry that, in my case there was a book given to Eagles "Eagles in Khaki" I’m sure many of you like me read it and were even more frustrated. 

The only place for reliable information seemed to be a bbm channel for corpers, I didn’t even know if the channel was run by a secondary school boy from the comfort of his bed, making graduates run here and there "they say i should buy 10 whites, 10 shorts. i heard some people even bought about 21 white t shirts and shorts for each day, wetin happen.

omg then the photocopies, photocopy 20 copies of this and that, I literally spent thousands of Dollars sorry Naira and I’m not exaggerating on photocopying items I didn’t later need. Then the night before the main camp day and the butterflies running in my stomach sorry scrap that, the urge to get to camp and begin my service.

2. camp day: on getting to camp, the soldiers cared less about how long the queue was or whether you are a graduate or you are the jagaban of agaba land, if you like speak pure British English we all still did frog jump...yes frog jump with our boxes on our head, see people fainting.

The registration queue wasn’t even helping matters, shey if I had known I would resume two days later, the queue was so long that ...no metaphor is entering my head right now but it was very long. about an hour later i was in front, Glory to God.....I was wondering why the other peeps were on the longer queues when mine took me just about an hour.....ooops my supposed one hour line was just for submitting one of the many documents, fast forward to about 8 hours later I finally got a platoon and all the other things.

Some people were already paying officials to work their posting to Ibadan, i’m not judging, I’m just a careful observer.

day 1-2-3-4 squad don dey form, some were already having babes and boyfriend *in Jenifa voice* camp was becoming fun, Mami market, the igbo sistrens and brethrens, different accents.

Day 6 squad was already having goals SQUAD GOALS and we were eager to leave camp and achieve those goals. i wish we knew  the proverb that says 20 children don’t play for 20 years, in our case camp squad isn’t squad after camp...oops I’m talking too much we will talk about this tomorrow.