BoomNG stories:- My Life At Thirty [18+] (Part Two)

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I attended Offa Grammar School where I completed my Secondary education.
At the same time I had completed
my haflat shahada course (Equivalent to secondary
education) in my Arabic school and people began to call ne Alfa because of my character and mode of dressing.

Needless to say that my or our way of living is like the ulamah (Alfas), my trouser doesn’t touch the ground, this was what i grew up in even my secondary school trouser was sewn in a way to prevent it from touching the ground.

I was a brilliant boy while in secondary school, my WASSCE result proved so as I got 3A’s
3B’s and 2c’s whilst my Geography was withheld.

The next phase of my life was Jamb,
even though our family was a bit broke by this time but my parent made sure i obtained
the form, my elder sister (Zainab) at this time was already through with her OND in Federal polytechnic Offa.

My sister’s support during this time was immeasurable, she already started her IT with one of the commercial bank in our town
and with the little she was earning and she used that in supporting the family too.

I wrote my jamb and thank God i scored 284
and Unilorin was my first choice of
institution, i never even wanted to go to polytechnic like my sister in the first place.

Fast forward to few months after my jamb, i
was offered admission to study economics in
Unilorin and this changed my entire life totally.

I could not afford coming
from Offa to Ilorin on a daily basis which means i had to settle for a hostel or an accommodation outside the school.

Unfortunately for me, i was not able to
secure school hostel as i did not pay on time which means i had to settle for a house outside the campus.
Admission to Unilorin was virtually the first time i will be spending my total time in Ilorin, as have been to Ilorin just twice in my entire
life and my admission was an opportunity to know what is going on in the outside world for the first time.

Looking for hostel, my dad tried to connect
with a lot of people, both family members and
friends that stay at Ilorin so that i can reside with them but most people we relate with are either staying in Amoyo, Sango, Sobi
Barrack side and the likes.

The closest family we saw was those staying in fate basin and GRA.
While we were trying to connect with series of people we learnt from one of our old
neighbour that Ismaeel is already in unilorin,
we were told he got admitted the previous year studying finance and he was staying outside school in Tanke which is like N10
cab to school.

Me and Ismaeel attended the same madrasa
while growing up, in fact we did our shahada
(graduation) together in our Arabic school
and he was even more brilliant than me. My
parent also know him very well but we never
knew he had gotten admission already
because they moved out of our area to their
own house when they completed it almost
two years ago.

Our parent reconnected us together and it
was a big surprise when we realized that
Ismaeel was staying alone in the house they
secured for him. Since he has already paid
for the house rent of that year, it was agreed
that both of us will be sharing the
accommodation fee equally every year.
Initially his parent didn't want him to stay with anybody for the few  of bad influence but had to agree since they knew my background and we have been family friends for a long time.

To Be Continued…