Warming Up to Epe

It has been a whole of two months since my last post. Wow! Blogging is by no means a mean fit, I see. Kudos to the folks who are able to do it in combination with other tasks in their lives.


Back to my blog!

I got admission to the pre-degree class of the legendary (some would consider this legend dubious though) Lagos State University (LASU) and for reasons that are not easily explainable, resumed three weeks late. Consequently, I missed the school's orientation programme and had to be inducted courtesy of the great friends I first met in the pre-degree class.

Of the things I was told about the Epe campus of LASU, one of the items that triggered my fancy is the bit about the many Christian fellowships that were present on campus. I took my time to make a choice, and of course, the music would play a phat role in determining my final choice. Back home in Abeokuta, folks would have concluded that the Anglican Students' Fellowship would be my automatic choice. For some reason, I did not even consider it. However, I had given thought to playing the organ at the Anglican church in Epe town, but at this time, the idea has ceased to be attractive.

After taking some more time to weigh my options, I joined the choir of LASU Christian Fellowship (LASUCF). I suppose having Mr. Oluwatoyin Ayedun for company in joining the choir helped me reach the decision fast enough. We were admitted into the choir and I sang "tenor" for a few weeks.

A quick interlude: As a result of the situation of electricity in Nigeria (which has sadly prevailed till now, with no hope in particular anywhere in sight), most people carried around something we called a "rechargeable lamp" at that time. I had one of my own, and i had carefully picked it - it had a torch, a reading lamp, some very mild kind of flood lights and a cassette player. You only needed to charge the battery of this device for a few hours and it could serve you for the same period of charge, or longer. My favourite part, of course, was the cassette player since I was growing a handsome collection of tapes for myself, anyway; I only needed to allow enough power on the battery to light the torch at the time of need.

I had this rechargeable lamp playing music while I sang along in the bathroom one day, and that is all I needed to attract the attention of a young man who has now been my friend for over ten years - Mr Oluwaseun Akinola Dawodu. I do not have that rechargeable device anymore, but I am grateful for the friendships that came by it.

This story would continue soon... and I promise it would not be another two-month break!