Just before I left
Edinburgh for Lagos last summer I met the wonderful Natalie Ghazi in a coffee
shop in Glasgow. I liked her
instantly. She was heading back to Lagos
for her fourth year and worked in my school.
She wasn’t going to be around for my first week in Lagos so arranged for
her partner Ela to meet me on my first day and show me around.
Ela did this. He picked me up and took me round the local
sights, for some Nigerian cuisine and even to his mum’s house! He really helped me settle in a country which
was, and still is, totally mental in my eyes.
He helped me see Nigeria as a fun place I would enjoy living in.
Natalie and Ela have
been my ‘besties’ this year. They have
allowed me to tag along to almost every night out, have dragged me out of my
house when I’ve been having one of my ‘I want to be alone’ weeks and have put up
with my constant questions, insecurities and naivety. They are good people.
Today Ela left. He has managed to secure a place at
university in the UK for a year to complete his masters. He won’t be back for a while. The next chapter of Natela is beginning. I’m so glad to have had Ela around for the
last year and I’m going to miss him loads.
I wish him every success and all the love in the world. Good things happen to good people.
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