Issues and concerns in camp/Nigeria

This is going to be a very long post.

SNORING

First of all, i'm thankful that I have no heavy snorers in my hostel. I went out of the room to pee around 12am last night and I heard another girl snoring in another hostel from outside like a cow and OMG, I just said "thank goodness"

RELIGION & MORAL CODES

A friend told me about a past issue at a camp where a married lady was having sex with another corp member on the parade ground. They were caught and they called her husband and ejected her from the service. Apparently, the punishment was worse in that situation because she was married.
Now, I question what her marital status should have to do with her punishment. I mean, her cheating is between her and her husband and how dare they call her husband to report her actions? It's one thing to punish her for breaking camp rules and another to sanction her for her immoral deeds.

PLEASE, EXCUSE ME & THANK YOU

Are these words even part of people's vocabulary in Nigeria?

Even when someone says please or excuse me, they would have already reached for whatever it was that they wanted or they would have already pushed you out of the way before they complete the phrase "excuse me"

Example: we were filling out forms in our files and I had completed it and waiting to submit. A girl comes along and says "have you finished, lemme see what you wrote here." Just so that we are on the same page, that sentence at the pace she was talking would only take about 7 seconds. Before she completed the sentence and before I was able to say "yes" or "no", she already grabbed the file out of my hands and proceeded to open it. Then I said "ah ah" then she chuckled realized her mistake and apologized.

The culture is really terrible up in here. Even the officials have no regards or respect for Corpers. They talk to you anyhow, they are always mad for no apparent reason. But this is quite normal in this part of the world.

RELIGION
One of my biggest concern is that it appears to me that religion is usually forced on people in Nigeria. And it's usually Christianity. Every morning, we have to report to the parade ground as early as 5:30 am for a mandatory devotion session, which I just think is ridiculous. The Muslims go to the mosque and then join the Christians after.

There is praise and worship, exhaltation, then prayers and the National prayer, which is the recitation of the second verse of the National Anthem.

Now, this is a government program for the whole nation, what if you don't believe in God, or you're an atheist then what? I know this is Nigeria but seriously, they need to let people make their decisions and not enforce religion on people.

~kdamsel~