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Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Thursday 4th March- Efun aged 16, Nigeria

It is so ironic how I woke up that morning thinking it was going to be different from every other day but somehow it didn’t quite turn out as I had planned. It was exactly the same as every other day and it was then that I realised that it was a day different in its own right. It was all the little things that made my day what it was. The picture most people have of my country, Nigeria, is not how it really is. It’s one of those places where the poverty is evident but waking up in the morning and seeing the luxuries that are a part of my life allow me take into consideration the little things around.

As usual, I was on my way to visit my cousins’ but we weren’t making much progress due to the traffic. It was then I looked out of the window and realised that despite the fact that we were in the middle of a city people still kept livestock on the land surrounding the house. My first reaction was ‘how weird’ but when you think about it you realise that this is the way people show how they had come to accept life in a country like that. I saw a woman come out of her house to feed the chickens around her home. What struck me was the way she spread the seeds out, you could see the contentment in her face; she was happy with what she had. It was then it came to me that my parents had tried so hard to make my life as simple as it could possibly be and yet I complained about needing a new ‘this’ or a new ‘that’. Ever since, I’ve always looked past what everyone else sees as ‘that’ country and learnt to appreciate all the little things that make it so enjoyable to live in.

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