The Shy Medic

Imagine a world without Facebook in it...*shuts eye and shakes head vigorously as I cannot imagine* In 2012 when I accepted the Terms and Conditions without reading a single line of it, my joy knew no bounds- I could use the internet beyond Google search and I could go to the internet cafe regularly for school "assignments". I sent friend requests, accepted random requests, poked friends, stalked my crush, liked pages, mentioned that I watched Hannah Montana in my bio which I never watched except that I heard the rich kids of my class talked about it, I mentioned that I played basketball which I would later try for the first time in my second year in uni * laughs at myself hysterically* , I mentioned all the books and "classy" movies I read and watched at the time of signup, and I wrote all the quotes from my old diary to describe who I was. That was my painstaking pre-pubertal launch into the world of social media! Few years later, there would be a debate...

Being out of Nigeria, you get lots of reality checks, especially being a first time traveller, WiFi being one of the tops. It's no news that WiFi owners in our dear country secure their connection under heavy guidance of unfathomable passwords, leaving poor internet users like me who wish to watch YouTube videos at the cruel hands of our 10-megabyte data. So going to Europe as an international student, you spend the first few months watching videos like no tomorrow, you play video games with no mercy, install and uninstall apps at will, stream unnecessary live videos, basically torturing the internet that tortured you back home. All these will soon stop when school starts and you have to 'not carry last' as a Naija person. Having 'white' friends is the dream of 80% of Nigerian students who travel abroad, if not how else do friends and family know that you're 'in the abroad'? Everyone is white as long as they don't have melanin donning their skin...