INTRODUCTION

I thank God for my journey so far here on steemit. I also want to thank some persons who have been instrumental to how far I have gone. People like @focusnow, @whiteestallion, and @talktofaith have been so helpful in here. I I have learnt so many things from them. I have done my achievement 1, achievement 2 , and achievement 3 and they have all been verified. I am glad I had done all that including some other posts.

MY CHILDHOOD

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The childhood period of my life is an unforgettable one that is always memorable for me. Though not everything about my childhood was pleasant, I love it whenever I remember the fact that I survived those unpleasant times.
The early part part of my life was childhood was spent at the village. I guess you know what that means. A life of where I had no access to technology, infrastructure or basic social amenities.

HIGHLIGHTS OF MY CHILDHOOD

MY VILLAGE EXPERIENCES

Growing up in the village had its ups and downs. Only God saw me through those days of Childhood.
I grew up in my village with my parents and siblings where my Dad worked as a teacher and my mum worked as a laboratory attendant. When I grew up to know things, though still a child, my mum had left the work she did in school and was now a Rice and beans seller. Life was pretty cool because dad and mom had works that helped I and my siblings lived fine. Mum could not stay with us for too long because she had to attend school of higher learning.

Mum left I and my siblings with our (our grandparents) as Dad couldn't do the work she was doing. I stayed with my Dad's mum while my two siblings then stayed with my mum's mother. Some times I go to my maternal side to visit and return. I stayed with my paternal mother so I could be of help to her in some little ways. I remember the times I fell heal and my grandmother had to use herbal medicine to treat me. A razor blade was used severally to cut my body in order to administer herbal medicine on my body.

I fell heal several times during my childhood that my parents had to take me to different places for seek for treatment. There was this particular time I fell heal and the prophet who prayed for me said my mum should cook for all members of my family including extended family members around and that when they finished eating, instead of them to go wash their hands, they should clean them on my body. That they did and I got healed.

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There were so many memorable parts of my childhood that I enjoyed so much. Times when I and siblings with friends would went swimming for all day long, times when I went fish farming with my elderly ones when I paddled the canoe and they threw the fishing net, we returned home with so great a number of fish. Times when we went into the bush to set fish traps for different species of fish. Times when I helped my grandparents prepare fishing materials.

Play was not left out in my childhood days as I played with my friends and family on water swimming for all day long. I played hide and seek with friends and siblings both on water and land. One of the hide and seek game we played was we covered about five to six persons with a big rapper, then the person chosen to name all of us while we are covered with the rapper comes and name us. We did that in turns until everyone got involved.

WAR

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During my childhood days when my mum was still in school and I and my siblings were with my grandmother, a war broke out between my villa and a neighbouring village. The war came in episodes until a time came when it became tough that right from my village, the gunshots between my village fighters and those of the neighbouring village was heard. It was sustained for a long period before they overpowered my village fighters. Everyone fled the village to inner villages. I, my siblings and grandmother settled at different villages before we finally had peace to settle in a settlement where she usually went fishing. We stayed at this settlement for months and experienced another version of life. We stayed at this settlement until my Dad found us after travelling miles to see us, so he could go tell mum that we were fine.

CITY LIFE

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My dad brought us to a village where he taught. The school that he taught was moved to that village where school resumed for the day at 2pm as the school had to share space with the school from that particular village just for the continuation of the school. I also attended primary school there up till my primary two before my mum came and took us to the City of Ore where I lived the remaining days of my childhood. Here in Ore, I completed my primary school education and also got admission into secondary school.. My childhood days at the village of Ajapa and City of Ore had both the pleasant and unpleasant sides.

I hope you had fun reading about my childhood, thanks for reading.